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EXPLANATION OF PLATE VI. 



Fig. I. 



xAn old cankery Apple-tree headed down four years ago, 

 now bearing great plenty of fine fruit. 

 a. Where it was firft headed down. 



b and c. Two wounds covered with the Compofition, and 

 now nearly filled up with found wood. 



The part of the trunk below a fhews the cankery ftate of 

 the bark ; which rough cankery bark muft always be pared 

 off, other wife it will infect the new. 



Fig. II. 



A branch fhewing the method of keeping a regular fuc- 

 ceffion of bearing wood. 



d. A branch, which has done bearing, to be cut at e, and 

 which is fucceeded by ther branch f ; when that alio is tired 

 of bearing, it is to be cut at g, and will be fucceeded by the 

 branch h ; and when that alfo is worn out, it is to be cut off 

 at /. By proceeding in this manner, you will always be able 

 to keep a regular fucceflion of fine bearing wood. 



