ORCHARD. 
bloflom, until the feedling tree has acquired its proper age 
and maturity. 
Hence he infers, as before mentioned, that the cutting 
muft partake of the life, and confequently of all the habits 
of the original tree. port of this theory, he ftates 
(confderng its fize) in the eal 
ued to bear every year fine The 
. Knight remar s, mu uft ae ai che nature and habits 
ey retain the a 
the fame pro- 
has * its infancy, its flowering {pring, its fummer 
ftrength, its fober autumn fading into age, and its pale 
concluding winter." 
The opinion of the beft informed planters is, that the 
feeds of the ald fruits fhould be fown, and the moft ftrong 
and healthy plants fele€ted for venues and a fupply of 
grafts. ‘I'his experimenc has been adopted on a large {cale 
O, 
on retiring to Horn Lacy, amidft other ufeful and Sino 
able employments of a country life, paid great attention to 
the culture of fruit-trees, and particularly to that of the red 
ftreak, which he fee 
well known, that good fruits might be 
fowing ae kernels of good apples, and id fclediing thofe rare 
which, e abfence of thorns, and in the 
char in infinitum from kernels ; 
t apple conn (Hereford), fo much addi&ed to 
or = iaran, we could never encounter more than two or three 
perfons ee did believe it. This method, however, 1s now 
becomin d more general. The writer fays, feveral 
thoufand Gest: thus raifed, are yearly diftributed by the 
sie rag Society, and are fought for with the utmoft 
The moft experienced planters confider it as the 
uit. 
th lps the management afterwards, it chiefly con- 
in keeping the trees properly pruned, thinued, and cu 
In Herefordfhire, feeb branches are rarely or 
never canis tated. The inftrument generally ufed ‘or the 
purpofe of pruning is a ftrong flat chiffel, fixed to a handle 
fix feet or more in length, having a fharp edge on one of its 
fides, and a hook upon the other. 
It has been ftated by the author of the Treatife on Fruit. 
trees, that when young trees are planted out from the nur- 
ae as foon as they begin to break in the fpring, they are 
t down to three or four eyes, according to thei 
eaters to furnifh them with bearing wood. If this were 
not done, they would run up in lo ranches, and 
n previ peal in thofe parts where 
any confiderable extent, ne 
rt never wi 5 own, and that 
kills t de 
come headed down al: at ae 
° the fap, t 
fill the head of the tree with fine ing woo thy 
years, if properly managed, trees fo he ed will produce a 
much greater quantity of fruit, and . a better quality, than 
they did ae re the operation was per n 
fyftem under 
centered in the principle of ma cing 
ealthy, — large, and beaut 
would greatly os nt the fpeckled and 
ftunted fait, peed by the trees being overloaded with 
wood, which obftruéts the rays of the un, and caufes 4 
vapour, the cold whereof ftunts the fruit in its firft Sac 
hen branches of any great fize are to be cut off, Mr. 
Bucknall found it impoffible to take them off by a bill, 
35.2 with 
eck in paee 
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