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XL VII. Some Remarks on Pruning and Training standard 

 Apple and Pear Trees. By Mr. John Maher, F.H.S. 

 Gardener to Daniel Be ale, Esq. at Millfield, near Ed- 

 monton. 



Read April 1, 1811. 



often see Apple and Fear trees, both in gardens and 

 orchards, not only crowded too closely together, but so 

 loaded with their own branches, that very little fruit is pro- 

 duced, and that which is produced, rendered greatly inferior 

 in size and flavour, to what it would be, under different 

 management. 



Directions for pruning these, as well as all other Fruit 

 Trees, have already been published by various experienced 

 gardeners, nor is it my present intention to offer any instruc- 

 tions on this head ; but necessity, which has been so justly 

 called the mother of invention, having impelled me to try a 

 method that I have not seen practised by any other person, 

 and which has proved uncommonly successful, a short detail 

 of it may perhaps be deemed not unworthy the attention of 

 the Horticultural Society. 



When first I came to Millfield, I found a number of Apple 

 and Pear trees, not only planted too closely, but left entirely 

 to their natural manner of growing, and exceedingly shaded 

 by a row of high trees in the hedge, which separates the 

 orchard from the pleasure ground. 



Other business to be done, of more importance, prevented 

 me from pruning the whole immediately, but a number were 



