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roared, and will continue fruitful a great number of 
vears, in good perfettion, with proper management in 
regard to pruning and training, as in the following 
directions for their general culture. 
For (landard Apricots, may plant fome half and full 
ftandards, detached from walls, in the open ground, 
in a warm, fheltered fituatien, in the full fun, where 
they may be defended, as much as poflible, from the 
northerly quarter, in the fpring, when in bloffom, and 
fettino- their fruit, and in which, they, in favourable 
feafons, will often produce plentiful crops, ripening 
in very good perfection. . 
Their general Culture of Pruning and Nailing. 
As to the culture of the wall Apricot Trees, and 
fuch as are trained in cfpaliers, it confifts of a fummer 
and winter-pruning every year ; and in both of which 
feafons of pruning, as thofe trees bear chiefly on the 
young wood, a general fupply of the young flioots of 
each year mult be retained for principal bearers, and 
the fuperfluous and improper Ihoots cut out; and ac¬ 
cording to the fupply of young, retained fnoots, a 
proportionable part of the ufclefs old wood cut out, 
to make room for the young. 
The fummer-pruning confifts of a general regula¬ 
tion among the yc#ig Ihoots of the year only, to dif- 
place the fore-right with other ill-placed and improper 
growths, and to retain a plentiful fupply of the well- 
placed .and proper Ihoots, for requifite fupplies of 
wood, in vacancies, and for fucceflional bearers, the 
following year; and lhould generally commence the 
bufmefs in May or June; and if proceeded in early, 
while the Ihoot-buds, or advancing Ihoots, are only 
about two or three, to four or five inches long, before 
they become very woody, the irregular and ufelefs 
produftions may moftly be rubbed oft', or difplaced 
expeditioufly with the finger and thumb; though, in 
the more advanced ftate of the fhoots, and in the ge¬ 
neral fummer-drefling, mull always ufe the pruning- 
knife; and by both of which methods, fhould now 
take off clofe all the fore-right Ihoots as arife imme¬ 
diately from the front part of the mother branches, in 
a projecting direction, and with others as are ill- 
placed, or not well fituated for training in regularly 
to the wall, together with fuch as are evidently im¬ 
proper, unneceflary, or fuperfluous, leaving an abun¬ 
dant fupply of the proper, well-placed fide-fhoots, 
and with a terminal or leading (hoot to each branch; 
and in the further advanced growth of the Ihoots in 
June and July, it is neceflary to prune out, in a thin¬ 
ning manner, part of the confiderably fuperfluous, or 
pver-abundant flioots, and generally to cut away fuch 
as affeft a very luxuriant, rank growth ; and all the 
retained, proper flioots, lhould be moftly continued at 
their full length all fummer, as far as there is room to 
extend them, and all nailed, or faftened in clofe and 
regular to the wall, during that feafon, to remain till 
winter-pruning, ready to chufe from, in fufiicient plen¬ 
ty, for next year’s bearers. 
In this bufmefs of fummer-pruning the wall Apri¬ 
cots, it is always advifeable to commence the ope¬ 
ration early in fummer, before the flioots are very 
confiderably advanced, to aflame a confufed, difor- 
derly ftate ; as when this work is performed while th'e 
Ihoots are of but a moderately advanced growth, the 
neceflary regulation of pruning out the ufelefs, and 
retaining the ufeful fupplies, can be efrefted, both 
with much greater accuracy and expedition, and 
prove of particular greater advantage to the trees, 
and the prefent production of the advancing young 
fruit, whereby to obtain it in all poflible perfedtion of 
maturity, in flze, beauty, and flavour. 
Therefore generally proceed in the firft regulation 
of fummer-pruning in the early growth of the flioots, 
when from about three or four, to fix or eight inch¬ 
es, to a foot long, at molt; or, as before obferved, 
may commence the operation when the (hoot-buds are 
advanced only two or three inches, which will be of 
Angular advantage juft to run over the trees, and dif- 
bud, or rub off the advancing fore-right buds and flioots, 
and fuch others, in young growth, as are improper, or 
ill-plaoed, for training to the wall, taking them off 
clofe to. whence they originate. 
Then with regard to the general operation of fum¬ 
mer-pruning, that either after performing the early 
or firft pruning, or dilbudding the evidently ufelefs. 
produftions, as above, in May or beginning of June, 
while in young growth; or if that bufinefs was omit¬ 
ted, fhould begin this principal regulation in the more 
advanced growth of the flioots, in the beginning or 
middle of June, at fartheft, before the trees have fbot 
into confiderable diforder, in which they both appear 
very unfightly, require confiderably more time and 
particular attention, as well as often occafion much 
perplexity in the confufed thicket of young wood, to 
perform the neceflary regulation in displacing the ufe- 
lcfs, and felefting the requifite fupply of proper fnoots, 
and proves greatly detrimental to the advancing 
fruit. 
Thus proceeding to this bufinefs in proper time, 
cut out clofe all remaining fore-right Ihoots, and 
others that are ill-placed, and carefully felecfting a 
plentiful fupply of the beft regular-placed fide-fhoots, 
and a leading one to each mother branch; all which to 
be retained for training in, to chufe from, for luc- 
ceflional bearers, next fummer; leaving alfo proper 
fupplies in vacant fpaces, and below, to have all part; 
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