both to retrench close the superfluous young wood, all fore-right, and other irregular shoots of each year, that cannot be trained in. Therefore, going over the trees timeously every Summer, rub or prune off close all the above evidently useless growths; selecting at the same time a sufficient general supply of the regular side shoots for succession bearers, and trained at full length till Winter: Then in Winter pruning, chusing a full supply of the best situated of the last Summer shoots in every part, let all the others that are not wanted be cut away quite close: likewise, at this pruning, cut out part of all the old horizontals or former bearers, down to the best placed young moots they support; and the general supply of young wood, now
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