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THERE are many excellent Kinde” of Fruits which produce great 
Plenty of Blofloms, and but very little Fruit, as the’ old Newington, 
and many other large Kinds of fine Peaches. This Sterilicy is caufed by 
the too great Abundance of Wood, which, when ‘tis cover’d over with 
its beautiful Blofloms, requires a much greater Quantity of Nourifhment 
than the Roots are at that Time able to communicate, ‘and thereby, 
for want of proper Nourifhment, the Embryo Fruits” are ftarved, and 
more efpecially when the Soil and Spring are both dry, ‘their Perfpi irations 
being then greateft; and if Eafterly Winds happen to blo iterate Pe 
their very drying exhaling Nature, is a further = to the Deflection of 
the Fruic. . 
BUT notwithftanding that the old Neawington Peach is always vaftly 
full of Bloffoms, as may be feen by Fig. IX. Plate Wand Ill. yet fe they 
are nail’d in at the Length of their Leaves, their Roots will be able 
to ftrongly fupport them, (as I have experiencd) and produce plentiful 
Crops : for by obferving this Diftance, the Roots will not have one 
third Part of the Wood to fupport, as when nail’d in thick, after the 
common Way. 
Tree are Tome Kind OfPeacnes wit ite has been more 
kind to than others; as in this very Cale, ite Albemarle and Catherine 
Peaches produce Leaves with their Bloffoms, (fee Fig. VI and VIII. 
Pate Wand III.) which ftrongly attract Nourifhment from the Roots to 
the Bloffoms, which the old Newéngton does not, it having Blofloms only ; 
which may in fome Degree be the Caufe of its producing but {mall 
Quantities of Fruit: but this may be greatly wad d in Pruning, as I 
fhall in its Place demonftrate. 
RULE V. 
THE nearer Branches are laid to an horizontal Pofition, the Ve- 
locity of the Sap is the more retarded, and the nearer to a perpendicular 
Pofition, the more freer ; therefore Branches that are inclinable to Luxu- 
riancy, may be check’d by being nail’d horizontally ; and thofe that are 
weak, help'd by being nail’d perpendicularly. | 
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