MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &c. 99 



All the above trees flood upon the fame afpect and the fame 

 wall, and the fruit was numbered in the fame year. A great 

 many Pears which dropped from the trees are not reckoned. 

 The trees that were pruned according to the old practice co- 

 vered at lea ft one-third more wall than the others. 



By the above ftatement it appears, that the trees headed 

 down bore upwards of five times the quantity of fruit that 

 the others did ; and it keeps increafmg in proportion to the 

 progrefs of the trees. 



On the 20th of June I headed feveral Standards that were 

 almoft deftroyed by the canker ; fome of them were fo loaded 

 with fruit the following year, that I was obliged to prop the 

 branches, to prevent their being broken down by the weight 

 of it. In the fourth year after thefe Standards were headed 

 down, one of them bore two thoufand eight hundred and 

 forty Pears. There were three Standards on the fame border 

 with the above, two of which were St. Germains ; the old 

 tree was of the fame kind. One of thefe trees*, twenty 

 years old, had five hundred Pears on it, which was a great 

 crop for its fize : fo that there were on the old tree, which 

 had been headed down not quite four years, two thoufand 

 three hundred and forty Pears more than on the tree of 

 twenty years growth. 



When the men numbered the Pears, there was near a bar- 

 rowful of wind-falls at the bottom of the old tree, which were 

 not included. 



Plate VIII. is a correcl: Drawing of an old decayed Beurre 

 Pear-tree, reftored from an incn and a half of bark, which 

 now covers a wall fixteen feet high. In the year 1796, it 



* This tree was about fix years old when I planted it fourteen years ago. 



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