214. TREATISE ON THE CULTURE, &c. 



trees ; and when fo treated, they will throw out a great number 

 of fhoots, which fhould by no means be too foon thinned, as in 

 that cafe, they will be liable to be broken by the wind. You 

 may begin to take off the weakeft fhoots about the latter end 

 of May, or beginning of June. About the middle of the 

 latter month, they will have acquired confiderable ftrength ; 

 yon may then thin them ; leaving as many ftrong regular 

 fhoots, and of thofe neareft the top of the Item, as will form 

 a handfome head. If the Item be very ftrong, it will be 

 neceffary, perhaps, to leave more than you intend to bud, on 

 purpofe to receive the fap, which will flow in great abun- 

 dance from a large trunk, and, without this precaution, 

 would be apt to burfl the fhoots, if there be not a fufficient 

 number to receive it. I have often feen fhoots as large as nw 

 arm burfl by a fupera'bundance of fap. When that is likely 

 to happen, the be ft thing you can do is, to fcarify the fhoots, 

 .and rub a little of the Compofition into the wound. 



