MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &c. 



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fettle the mould, letting it remain for fome days till the water 

 is abforbed ; then tread the mould, and fill the holes up to the* 

 top ; obferving the fame rules as before given in cafe of dry 

 weather, letting your freih-planted trees remain u-n pruned till 

 the Spring. 



When you fee the buds begin to fhoot, if the trees be maiden 

 trees of one year's growth, you may head them to five or more 

 eyes, according to their ftrength ; then rub on a little of the* 

 composition where you cut off" the top, obferving to cut it 

 floping, as before directed, and as near the top buds as may 

 be, and alfo to rub off the foreright fhoots. When the young 

 fhoots have ftrength, nail them to the wall, to prevent their 

 being broken by the wind. If the leading fhoot be very 

 flrong, pinch off the top of it about the beginning of June,- 

 which wilLmake it throw out fome fine flrong fhoots to help to 

 fill the wall. None of the fhoots fhould be fuffered to grow 4 - 

 too long during the firft and fecond years ; which may always 

 be prevented by pinching the ends of them ; but they fhould 

 never be topped, when the tree fends out fine kind fhoots, till 

 the fpring following, when you may prune them, according to 

 the ftrength of the tree, and the quantity of wood it has made 

 during the preceding funimer, leaving your fhoots from fix to 

 twelve inches long ; by which means you will foon be able to 

 £11 the lower part of the wall. It is too common a practice to 

 lay-in the fhoots at full length, taking off only the points of the 

 branches, which generally, after a few years, leaves the walls 

 quite naked: whereas if attention were paid to the training,, 

 efpecially for the firft four years, you could always fill the 

 walls with fine bearing wood from top to bottom, and the 

 trees could produce a great deal more fruit, and of much 

 finer quality, than when they are run up in the former, way ; for 



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