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WE fhould alfo difplace all the lateral Buds as they appear, that the” 
whole Nourifhment may be fully employ’d in the Suipport of the Stems 
only. 
WHEN our Plants are rifen to five or fix Feet high, we muft prune 
off: their leading Shoots; to caufe their upper lateral Buds to break out 
into divers Branches, with which their Heads are form/d. 
THERE is a Kind of ‘Black Mulberry, which produces great Quan- 
tities of Katkins in May, (as Fig. VII. Plate LVIII, LIX.) and very 
few Fruits ; which, when difcover'd, fhould be either budded or grafted 
with the true bearing Kind, 
IF we obferve how thefe Fruits are produc’d, we may fee what a 
wonderful Provifion Nature has made for their Support and Proteétion, 
by placing of Leaves immediately over the Fruits, which do not only 
attract and imbibe Nourifhment from Dews, Rains, dc. and perfpire 
away the Crudities thereof, but proteét them during their Growth from 
the Injuries OF Heat-and Cold: 
THOSE Fruits which are produced this Year, were form’d in the 
Buds in the laft Year ; for if in the Depth of Winter we flit the Bud 
of a Mulberry from its Apex down its Axis to the Bafe, we may with 
the naked Eye difcover the young Fruit in its Matrix, carefully wrapt 
up in its tender Leaves, which, with great Force, expand themfelves with 
the Fruits when they firft appear in May, as Fig. IV. Plate LIX. 
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