MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, kc. U5 



cafe they feldom bear fruit •, and if they do, it will be very 

 fmall. I never lay in any that has lefs than fifteen, and from 

 that to thirty good eyes, according to the ftrength of the 

 fhoot, which will produce two bunches from every good eye. 

 I have had feventy bunches of grapes from one fhoot. The 

 {hoots that have borne fruit in the preceding year fnould be 

 cut out next year, except when you want to fill the wall, and 

 the fhoots are very ftrong. You will always get plenty of 

 fine healthy young wood if you are careful when you prune in 

 the Winter ; therefore never leave any but fine fir on g wood, 

 always cutting at the fecond, third, or fourth eye ; remem- 

 bering to rub the loweft bud off, and that which comes 

 out at the joint between the new and laft year's wood. By 

 thefe means you will get as much fruit from thefe fhort fhoots 

 as you would have by the common way of pruning. You 

 muff, always obferve to leave two or three of the ftrongeft 

 fhoots for next year's bearing wood, and never top them. If 

 you have not room to train them, you may lead them over 

 the tops of the other trees, if the Vines are planted againft 

 Piers ; or you may run them behind the ftandards, if there be 

 any, which is generally the cafe when the walls are high ; thus 

 you will cover all the wall, which will have a very beautiful 

 • appearance when the fruit is ripe, befides furnifhing a plenti- 

 ful fupply of fine Grapes for the table. You may run the 

 fhoots at the bottom of the wall behind the dwarf trees, or 

 you may tack them down over the top of the wall on the 

 other fide, provided the walls are low. 1 have had very fine 

 Grapes on 'Eaft and Weft walls, in good feafons, between 

 Peaches, Plums, &c. particularly when the trees are young* 

 You muft keep cutting in the Vines as the other trees grow 

 and fill up the walls. I alio train them over the tops of trees 



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