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CHAP. XVIIL 
Of PEACHES and NECTARINES. 
apsenee) LL THO’ Nectarines differ from Peaches in their Colour, 
ey) A fay, Smoothnefs of Skin and Tafte, yet their Propagation and 
INOKC% Manner of Pruning, Gr: are the fame ; fo that when I am 
treating on the ordering of oa the fame is to be underftood of 
Nectarine Trees. 
ALL Kinds “Of Peaches produce their Fruits upon the laft Year’s 
Wood, as A B, Fig. VII. Plate II and Il. which never bears again, 
but produce from Shoots or Fiddes yearly afterwards, as C DE, onBE 
the two Years Wood; and the like of che finall Shoots DE FG, (Fig. X.) 
produced from the two Years Wood X W of the Catherine Peach : 
And ’tis therefore that we muft always, during the Summer Seafon, 
preferve a fufficient Query of new Wood to fucceed the old. 
THE Bloflom-Buds of Peaches // 1, éc. being very plump, and larger 
than the Leaf-Buds ¢ 7 7, 2c. are eafi ly diftinguifh’ d from them, when we 
come to make Choice thereof at the Time of Pruning. 
IT appears by the Shoots of the Apricot (fig. TI. Plate VIM, IX.) 
that the Bloffoms at the extreme Parts are much weaker than thofe at B: 
For as the extreme Part A was produced when the Vigour of the Sap 
was over, and the Seafon colder than in the Spring, they are therefore 
very weak and immature ; and tis for this Reafon that the Ends of oe 
= which are predic d late in the Spring, are prun’d, 
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