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a Man’s Hand, when it is open, or like the Ribs of a 
Fan, when open’d. 
Ufe Care not to force or bend them, bowing like 
a Cat’s Back, for if they be fo forc’d, they make as it 
were an Elbow, where the Sap flopping, often puts 
forth a falfe Shute, which takes the Strength from the 
Remainder of the Bough, and hinders its Growth. 
For this Reafon the tops of the Boughs mull: never 
be fatten'd lower than the place out of which they 
grew, but mutt be conduced ftill along, and that 
fomewhat afcending. 
Alfa, fee that the Branches be not crofted, nor 
patted one above another, nor two fatten’d in one 
place, but they mutt be feparated from each other, 
and fet a convenient diftance, according to their 
Number, and the Strength of the Tree. 
In cafe the Trees are old, and want Boughs in the 
j middle, you mutt turn the fmatter Branches upward, 
and bring them towards the Stem to preferve the. 
Tree’s beauty, and this want is chiefly oceafion’d by 
the Gardener’s Ignorance in not guiding them well at 
fir ft, or thro’ Negligence in pruning them, taking 
away their Shutes in a Seafon not proper for them. 
In pruning. Care mutt be taken to cut one fhort 
between two long ones, that being unequal when they 
come to fpring,the middle of theTree may be the bet- 
ter furnith’d. In the fame manner mutt the Branches 
of the Dwarf ftanders be cut. The Pruning depends 
principally upon the Gardener’s Prudence, who 
ought to pra&ice according to the different quality 
of the Tree, fo that Pruning mutt be perform’d with. 
Skill and judgment, and that from Year to Year. 
But the principal thing is, to leave neither the 
Foot nor the Body of Trees too much unfurnilh’d, 
for this reafon he rnoft cut them rather too fhort than 
too long, taking moft from, thehigheft Branches, and 
fuch as are toward the top of the Wall, becaufe 
the fe “draw all the Sap to themfelves, and leave the 
bottom of the Tree unfumiftied.. 
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