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POMONA: Or, 
NOW thefe Extremes being only fic for the two aforefaid Kinds of 
Wood, we muft therefore make Choice of a mean Situation, for our 
beft and _moft healthy fruitful Branches ; and therefore they fhould be fo 
laid, as to make an Angle of 45 Deke, or thereabouts, with the 
Horizon. 
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Se “ss 
FRESH nail all Branches every Year, that they may have a free 
Dilatation. 
THE next Seca) Matter to be confider’d, is the beft Time of the 
Year for Pruning, which, among all our famous Gardeners, is left un- 
determin’d, every one affigning his own Seafon, but not one of them 
has yet sce a fi nee Reafon for it. 
FIRST then, ‘hae’ we may ‘be certain of F laying che ae at 
their proper Diftances, we fhould prune our Trees in the End of Auguft, 
and Beginning of September, before their Leaves are fallen, which will 
then exhibit to us the juft Diftances ; which cannot be fo exact, if we 
prune them in the Winter Sealon, as is ufual. 
SECONDLY, Sinisa pene rand in this Seafon, juft before 
their Growths are at an End, and the Air kind and warm, Nature will 
immediately clofe up, and heal the Orifices of the Sap-Veflels, before 
the Wet and Cold of the Winter comes on, which they imbibe to ates 
Prejudice, when prun’d in that Seafon. 
THIS I have oftentimes experienc d, and therefore recommend it to 
the Curious: But when you prune off the End of a Shoot, you muft 
always take it for a Rule to cut an Inch at leaft above the Bud, (which 
muft always be a Leaf, and not a Bloffom-Bud, as I fhall hereafter 
x which, after perifhing down to the Bud for want of 
uhmen , becomes fo very hard, as to protect the whole Branch 
the Injuries of Wer and Cold, 
