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The Fruit-Garven Jluftrated, 
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they can but curb their fuperficial Imaginations, and coolly read, fo as 
to perfectly underftand the following Paragraphs, they will plainly 
difcover their long riveted Ignorance, and be led into a natural and tea- 
fonable Method of working, -whereby they'll be,enabled to account for 
all their feveral Operations in the Management of Ftnit-Trees, with 
abundance of Pleafure and Certainty. | 
THE whole Management of Fruit-Trees after Planting, may be re- 
duced to a very few Rules, and have the defired Succels. a 
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DISPLACE all forward Buds, by rubbing them off when they 
firft appear, and then the whole Nourifhment will be diftributed to the 
neceflaty Branches. By obferving this Rule, your Trees will alaays 
tte clofe to the Wall, and be free from the Snags, which ave very difa- 
grecable and unprofitable ; for whatever Fruits are produced in {uch Si- 
tuations, are never better than thofe on Dwarfs or Standards. 
RULE it. 
ned 
each Branch contains four or five Buds in Length, by nipping off the 
leading Buds with your Finger Nails, which will caufe them to produce 
new Branches from every Bud that will become fruitful ; for that Nouri/b- 
ment which Nature intended for one Branch, will be diftributed into 
three or four, which confequently cannot be fo luxurious as when wholly 
amploy'd in one Branch: Therefore if this Rule is well obfery'd, we need 
never be troubled with luxurious Wood. 
; RULE Wi. 
IF Fruit-Trees produce three or four Shoots, and all weak, difplace 
the two weakeft, that the whole Nourifhment may be wholly imbibed 
by the ftrongeft, which will enable it to form a good Head, 
RULE 
pe re gaia — “ a mecorieuaee <a a cupearen ; 
WHEN luxurious Branches only are produced, ftop them, when 
