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= THE firft ripe — are 
CHAP. XVE 
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ee oe2|\P RICOTS, or Abricots, in general, produce Fruits on the 
%\ laft Year's Shoots, and therefore we muft always take care to 
preferve young Wood for a Succeffion, that when we are ob- 
: lig £6. cue out that which is barren, we may fupply the Stead with that 
as is fruitful. But all the Fruits are not produc'd on the extreme, or laft 
Year ’s Shoots, becanfe the Wood of two Years old does generally produce 
{mall fruitful Branches, as b 5 d, Fig. I. and 7 mnbo, Fag. i. Plate XIX. 
which likewife produce good Fenieags = 
THE {mall lateral Bnisekes « are hea nail’d in at full Length, 
as cabo, Fag. Il. but they produce better Peni when they are pruned, 
as b b, fig. I. ad 
icles Ie at Cake Joint, ——— the firft 
and fecond Year's Wood, (as at:B, Fig. THI. Plate VIII and IX.) where 
you fee thofe Blofloms are fully blown, whilft the others above, at ¢ ou; 
are not half fo much expanded, becuais they receive lefler and later 
Nourifhment from the Roots than thofe at B ; and in like manner thofe 
at d d d, \efs and later than thofe at ¢ cc; and therefore it is that we are. 
furnifh'd with feveral Crops, whereby they continue much longer, than were 
they to ripen all together at one Time : But ‘tis always found that the firft 
“5 is the beft. 
THE Mafiuline sae (Fag. I. Plate XV.) is the firft that is 
ripe 5 and when ‘tis difcretionally thin’d, and timely gatherd, is worth 
the Notice of the moft Curious ; but when they are faffer'd to grow 
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