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THE MINIATDBE PEUIT GAEDEN 



be planted seven feet apart, or trees with eleven upright 

 branches, nine feet apart. Trees, however, can seldom 

 be purchased with shoots so numerous; young ^trees 

 must therefore be planted, and cut back annually for two 



or three years, till the proper number of perpendicular 

 shoots are supplied. It may happen that trained trees 

 with five or seven branches cannot be procured, perhaps 

 trees with only three shoots, two horizontal and one 

 leading shoot ; in such cases they must be cut back, 



