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EXPLANATION OF PLATE VII. 



This Plate reprefents an old decayed Pear-tree, with four 

 ftems, which was headed down, all but the branch C, and the 

 young wood trained in the common way, or fan-fafhion. 



A, A, A- Young wood producing the fine large fruit B. 



C. An old branch pruned in the common way, having 

 large fpurs (landing out a foot or eighteen inches, and pro- 

 ducing the diminutive, kernelly, and ill-flavoured fruit jD, not 

 fit to be eaten. 



The two Pears B and P, reprefented in the Plate of their 

 natural fise, grew on the tree at the fame time. 



a, a, a 9 &c. Wounds in the ftems of the tree, with the 

 Compofition applied, as they appeared when the edges of the 

 bark began to grow over them. 



