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and well matured as any of the same kind produced 

 by trees which had not been touched ; but it is ge- 

 nerally prudent not to allow them to fruit the first 

 two seasons. As an experiment, we cut most of the 

 branches from the top of two of the trees— that is, 

 headed them down, but found these did not grow so 

 well as those which were only slightly pruned, or 

 not pruned at all. 



Pruning at planting should take place in cases 

 where there are long annual shoots of the preceding 

 season, or much close spray as in old fruiting-trees ; 

 the former should be cut -iftte^five or six buds in 

 length, and the latter ought to be thinned, to an ex- 

 tent, which the kind of tree, the largeness and safe 

 state of the root, soil, exposure, and climate, must 

 determine : we request our readers to pay attention 

 to this. Pruning the long annual shoots, prevents a 

 too early formation of leaves, which often occurs in 

 moist cold soil, and which wither before the roots 

 begin to strike. 



In some cases, where we found the earth too fri- 

 able, and not sufficiently bound together by the 

 roots, to rise up in a cake, we first prepared the stool 

 for upsetting, and waited for hard frost * to bind 



* We understand freezing the earth around the bulb is an old 

 practice. 



