New Principles of Gardening: 
falfe Branches, called Water-Shoots, known by the extraordinary 
Diltance of their Buds, and to lay in no more Wood, then the 
Roots may be reafonably fuppofed capable of fupplying with fuf- - 
ficient Juices. 
In Nasling of Pear-Trees, always remember to place the - 
Branches Horizontally, otherwife they will foon come to Ruin: - 
Perpendicular Branches are ever deftructive. 
To diltinguifh the proper Branches which produce Fruit 
from thofe as produce Leaves only, observe the following Ac- 
count, wz. ‘There be few Pear-Trees ‘as produce Fruit before 
they are three Years old, or their Wood of the like Age, that 
is, fuch Shoots as are produced this Year, are preparing them- 
felves all the fecond Year to produce Fruit in the third. Hence 
it appears, that Pear-Trees have their peuing Buds ia three - 
er. The blow- - 
ing Buds of three Years old difcover themfelves at the Fall of » 
the Leaf, who, whilft the Fruit preceding them was growing - 
and ripening, they were preparing to fucceed them the enfu-. 
feveral States, continually fucceeding one anot 
ing Year. 
Thete Buds of three Years Growth are known by their: be- .. 
ing very full, and larger than any others, in a feeming Swel- - 
ling impatient State of breaking out into its beautiful Dref - 
of delightful Bloom. The next preparative Buds of two Years, . 
are of a fharp conical Form, and Red-ruffet Colour, growing - 
very near to the fruitiul Bud before defcribed: And laftly, the 
Junior Bud of one Year is a very fmall one, but full above | 
the Bark, and always breaks out very near to that of two 
Years Growth: And befides all thefe, there is another wonder- 
ful Work of Nature, which is the Preparation of fmaller Buds 
as are continually forming themfelves within the Bark, to break . 
out, and fucceed thofe their next Seniors of one Year’s Growth, 
and {0 on, ad infinitum: And in Confideration that this won- - 
derful Work of Nature was never explained by any one, 
therefore, for the Ufe of the Curious, and all others concern’d 
in Gardening, I fhall foon communicate an entire, new, and 
general Sy {tem of the beft Fruits now extant in England, wherein 
the true Form of their Buds, Braaches, Leaves, Bloiffoms, and | 
Fruits, are truly reprefented, as they appear in their feveral 
Stages or Degrees of Growth: With Obfervations on their 
Progrefs, and proper Diretions for their Managements, Sc. 
L2 explain’d, 
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