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pruning- 
all i i then resorted fo clcan- 
Hig -■ 
He made hut 84 tierces in 1841—although in 
ilie same locality with equal advantages. 1 may 
also add, in further proof* of the efficacy of the 
system to which I bad given the preference, 
that an overseer in the same district pursued 
my mode coeval with myself; and that the same 
results attended his ensuing crop. 
My attention was at the time pointedly drawn 
to this extraordinary difference of opinion be¬ 
tween my next door neighbour and myself, and 
1 was the more determined to watch the re¬ 
sults. My neighbour argued that he always ex¬ 
pected to make a short crop after a heavy one, 
and it was therefore necessary to sacrifice some 
wood by pruning early, in order to force the 
trees to throw .out young wood, to produce 
another large crop in 1840. The seasons how¬ 
ever variec/, and rny neighbour’s expectations 
were doomed to disappointment ; for in that year 
lie did not even realize his 1841 crop. 
Thus it appears perfectly convincing to me 
that this sacrifice of which I have heard plan¬ 
ters speak as highly justifiable, in order to 
push for a large crop—is palpably inexpedient 
and flagrantly injurious. There can be no cer- 
'ain calculations made on the seasons. The trees 
might be in a state of perfection as to order— 
the indications equally as conclusive on the 
mind as to the promise for the next crop, when 
a sudden blast might destroy all our anticipa- 
r,on~\ or at. any rate render them fruitless. In¬ 
deed the very fruit has been seen on the trees, 
ami a heavy winter has often doomed it all to 
blight 
