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Beeches, and not be pruned before they are grown 
very big, and even then you muft obferve, in the 
cutting any Branch from them in the Month of 
March , to rub the Wound immediately with Hog's 
Dung or Coro Dung y to hinder the Gum from iffuirg 
out, which often caufes them to die. 
How to prune and plajh Trees. 
To do it againft a Wall in a Counter-Hedge, or in 
Dwarf-Trees: This depends much upon the Inge- 
nuity of the Gardener, to judge what Branches muft 
be left, and which ought to be cut away, which is 
learnt more by Experience than Difcourfe. 
There are many different ways of plafhing, as 
with Nails and Pieces of Leather, or Lifts of Cloth 
put about the Branches. Some faften into the Walls, 
the Bones of Sheep’s Feet, and plafh the Trees to 
them ; but this way I do not well like. 
But the beft Invention, and eafreft and leaft Coft r 
is to make the Trellis of Laths, a full quarter of an 
inch fquare, and of nine or ten foot long, or more, 
if it may be according to the heighth of the Wall ; 
Thefe Laths you muft place in fquares, at nine inches 
diftance, and ty’d with Iron or Brafs Wire; it muft 
be upheld by fmall Iron Hooks faften’d in the Wall* 
in a ftrait Line, at three foot and a half from each 
o:her, and two inches without the Wall This way 
is coftiy at firft, but lafts long, is belt, and at laft 
the cheapeft. There are other ways, but I have not 
room to mention them here. 
But before you begin to plafh, you muft leave the 
Trees to fprout at full Liberty for the firft Year* 
without taking off their Buds, or flopping them, 
and then flay till February or March of their Second. 
Year, before you begin to cut them, or faften them 
to the Wall, foecaufe their firft Shutes are fo tender, 
that you cannot plafh them without forcing them, 
which changes them very much: Notwithftending, 
when Peach-Trees, Apricock-Trees, and even Pear- 
Trees, dQ.fpr.QUL too firongly in their firft Year, you 
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