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PRODUCTION 



Sect. XV. 3. 2, 



if this pruning be deferred till late in the winter months, the fl 



bds will not be quite fo forward 



f it be performed 



For 



the fame reafon the root-fuckers alfo (hould be cut away in the au 

 mn, that all the nutriment, which they would otherwife expend 



may he derived to the flower-bud 



d 



d 



ge themfel 



them early 



n 



Pinch or rub off all ufelefs vivip 

 IS they occur. 



In thofe 



buds in the fpring or fu 



here the fruit-bud 



th 



e 

 w leaf-lhoots along with the leaf-buds, and cannot therefore be 



fooner diftinguiflied or approached, as in 



figs and 



vines, 



he fu 



mit leaf-buds fliould be pinched off two joints above the fruit-b 



foon as they app 



more nutriment may be conveyed to th 



fruit-buds. See No. 3. 4. of this Se6l 



And 



the hardier wall-trees the new leaf-bud 



during the fpring and fummer months in w 

 cannot be trained properly againft the wall, 

 numerous, fliould be rubbed.or 



hich appear 



t) 



places, where they 



or 



h 



pinched off, as they 



hey 



too 



h 



more nourifhment will be derived to the ripening fruit, and to thofe 

 new leaf-buds which are to remain to produce future flower-buds. 



in their young flatc in the 



And if 



w buds, which are feen 



axilla of the leaves of the new fhoots, were picked out by the point of 

 a knife, or pinched off, where they grow long enough for that pur- 

 pofe, as the fecondary fhoots of vines in grape houfes are pinched ; it 

 might probably induce thofe eyes to produce flowers in the fucceed- 

 ing year, as fpoken of in No. 2. 5. of this Sedion, as well as con- 

 tribute to enlarge the prefent fruit by the expenditure 



of lefs nutri- 



th 



f-bud 



an 



dea well deferving the teft 



of experi 



me 



In the fame manner in the cultivation of melons and cucumbers af 



bud is pinched off, 



mentioned above, No. 2. 5. th 



viviparous extremities of the lateral branches fliould be alfo dellroy- 

 ed, as foon as a fufficient number of female flowers are imprec^nated ; 



that 



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