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POM.ON A:: . Or, 
Of the Management of Fruit-TRers after Planting ; 
their Seafon and Manner of Pruning, Nailing, &c. 
3.0L THO ‘tis abfolutely neceflary that great Care fhould be taken 
45 in the Choice of Trees before we plant, as well as in the 
S Preparation of Soils, Manner of Pruning their Heads and 
oots, and Planting; yet if they are not well govern'd afterwards, our 
Labours and Expences are all loft. There are many Gardeners in 
England that have had the Management of Fruit-Trees from their firlt 
Planting, and been very fuccefsful therein, but it has all been by mere 
Accident, for there’s not one of them ali can account for any one Ope- 
ration they do therein. 
IF we ask them why a Tree muft be pruned, ¢hey anfwer as Mr. W ife 
and Mr. Carpenter have done in their Retir'd Gardener, To keep it 
in Oder, that the Fruits may not be injur’d or depriv'd of Nourifh- 
ment, by the fmall and luxurious Wood—and that it may continue a 
long Life : Which Reafons are tolerably good were they well executed ; 
but to their Misfortunes, they always, in their belt PraGice, not only 
fuffer fuch Sorts of injurious Shoots to be producd, but load Nature with 
fo great a Burthen of other Wood, that a few Years bring abouc their 
irrecoverable Decay. : 
THIS I am certain will at firft be underftodd by them as Self-conceir, 
for, to their great Misfortunes, there’s’ no Sort of People breathing fo 
vaftly conceited and ignorant as moft of our Englifo Gardeners are, who 
ter peice all the World to be-like themfelves : But however, if 
they 
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