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tf in five or fix Inches of the Wound. This 
“ Operation vve obferve to do every fecond 
“ Year, till the Tree is fit for the Orchard, and 
<c is what is exa&ly regarded by our bed Nurfe- 
tc ry Men ; the proper Age for tranfplanting 
<c being at five, or fix, or feven, or more Years 
<c of Age. The Reafons for repeating the 
<c Cuttings till that Time are thele: Firjl y the 
<c T ree is thereby enabled to make drong Shoots, 
“ and vigorous Roots and Branches ; for if they 
<e were not brought under fuch Difcipline in 
ce their Youth, the Tree would {hoot too thick 
<c and weak.— Again, if fuch Cuttings were 
“ forbore till the Tree was older, the Wounds 
cc would be fo large, as not to be healed pre- 
fently. Secondly \ by this Means all unnecef- 
Cf fary Branches are prevented, and their bear- 
* e ing Fruit too foon, which, if fuffered, would 
€i much weaken the Tree, or more or lefs 
<c hinder future Succefs.” 
How a certain Baronet in Devon fill re greatly 
improved his bad Cyder-Orchard Apple-Trees.— 
This Gentleman commonly makes four or five 
hundred Hogfheads of Cyder every Year, as is 
well known to me that live in his Neighbourhood 
with another Gentleman, who like wife makes 
Abundance of Cyder. One of the Baronet's 
Orchards, confiding of a fine Hafel Earth, 
was well planted with tolerable good Cyder- 
Fruit, yet not fo good as he would have it; 
nor did it produce fo large a Quantity of Cyder 
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