MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &r, 95 



When you plant trees againft a wall, remember to let the 

 ftem ft and Hoping towards it ; the lower part of it lliould be 

 fix inches from the bottom of the wall, to give the item room 

 to grow. If planted clofe to the wall at bottom, the ftem, 

 in growing, will be confined on the back, and will grow 

 flat, and be very unfightly. If any roots are in the way, to 

 hinder it from being planted near enough to the wall, they 

 mult be cut off : at the fame time take care that the tree does 

 not lean to either fide, but that, when viewed in front, it may 

 appear perfectly upright. You will fometimes fee ftandards 

 and half ftandards planted a foot or two from the wall,, 

 which gives them a very difagreeable appearance ; fix inches 

 will be quite fufticient. Take care not to wound the ftem or 

 root of the tree in planting. 



If the young trees have two ftems, always remember to cut 

 off one of them, leaving the ftouteft and ftraighteft ; ob- 

 ferving to plant that fide outwards which has mod buds 

 on it. 



When the buds begin to break well, you may head the trees; 

 to three or four eyes, to fill the wall with fine wood. You 

 muft never head them afterward, except the leading (hoot to 

 fill the wall, obferving to leave the foreright (hoots to be 

 pruned, as hereafter directed. I have had fome trees that 

 had forty Pears on them the fecond year; while fome of the 

 fame kind bore only eleven Pears the fourteenth year after 

 planting, with the common method of pruning. 



If you cannot get fuch old trees as recommended above, 

 get the ftouteft and cleaned of the. one year's old after 

 grafting. 



If any of thefe trees get ftunted after a number of years, 

 you have nothing more to do than to head them as hereafter 



directed^. 



