OB: PRUNING. 



SECT. XlJ. 



numerous, for they bear well, and continue for years. 

 Some forts of peaches are alfo apt to put out fruit fpurs t 

 and mud be managed accordingly. 



If much alteration is to be made in a wall tree, it 

 will be neceflary to un-nail a great part, if not the 

 whole tree, or a fide of it, at leaft. When a tree has 

 filled its /pace, fomething of this fort inujl be done, and 

 the worli, oldeit, largeft, and moil unprofitable wood 

 taken out. If good fruitful wood be cut away to 

 reduce the tree, then that is to be referved which will 

 lay in ftraiteft and in the belt form, branching out the 

 neareft towards the Hem, 



Thus having finished the directions for pruning 

 apricots y peaches , and neclarines. a few fhort obfervations 

 may be made, and fomething faid concerning the 

 management of thofe wall trees, in order to obtain good 

 fruit. 



After trees have been pruned, it will be proper tc> 

 look them over, to fee what can be amended, as they 

 will hardly be done perfectly at fir ft; this bu finds may- 

 be let alone till blofjhming time, and then fome judicious 

 alterations may perhaps be made, (with care) as taking 

 out fome weak, or other moots, that, prove barren, and 

 may be fpared, or cutting fome down to the knit-iruit, 

 both to benefit that, and make room for the new wood : 

 April will be the time for this. 



The pruners bufinefs is not fimply in providing a 

 prefent, or a next year's crop of fruit, but to manage 

 his trees fo as to lay a foundation for years to come : 

 He is to anticipate confcquences, and provide for the 

 future. 



Particular as the directions here given for pruning 

 have bean, they cannot have comprehended every 

 pofjible cafe, but good fenfe and experience will readily 

 fupply what may be wanting, if the inftruftions afforded 

 are underftood. 



Thofe who hire a workman to perform their pruning, 

 fliould have three fummer operations befides the winter; 



i. e. 



