&ECT * Xrl. OF PRUN-ING. 1ST 



feet in length of alowwall, or on a high one. fometliing 

 lefs. 



Mulberries are ftill more rarely cultivated as wall- 

 fruit. 



Thefe trees require good room, as their mode of 

 bearing is moftly at the end of the trained moots*, 

 which are therefore not to be fhortened. Twenty or 

 twenty-five feet (hould be allowed them, and a new 

 planted tree is to be headed down as direfted {or pears t 

 &c. Train regularly as many fhoots as may be in 

 fummer, and at winter pruning, lay them about fix or 

 feven inches diftance. A fucceffion ot new wood 

 in uft be always coming forward, and of cour-fe fome 

 old taken out, for the fruit is produced chiefly on year 

 and two-year old wood;, and as it comes on fpurs, and 

 alfo final! ihcots of the fame year, the leaving fhort 

 flubs (of moderate wood) in pruning, feerns juftified* 

 though by fome condemned.. 



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Cherries ftiould be found againft walls in every goo:I 

 garden; but plant young trees, not more than two, but 

 better if we year only from budding. 



A new planted cherry tree is belt to have but one 

 'ftrong fhoot from the bud, and then cut down at fpring, 

 fo as to have two or three eyes- on each fide, to lay in 

 well to the wall; but if older and fuller of wood, head 

 it down as will be direfted prefentiy, in the article;, 

 Ef palter Pruning.. 



Cherry trees mould be trained at length, four or five 

 inches afuncler. The fruit comes from fpurs all along 

 the (hoots, on one and two years old wood, which will, 

 continue to bear,, X;r pruning have an eye, however^ 

 to fome fair ftioots for fucceffors to thofe that are 

 getting difeaied, or worn out,. Some cut all fuper- 

 fluous flioots clean, away,, and others leave a. fprinli- 



