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 feet high for full standards, and four or five for half-standards, branching out at these respective heights, all around into regular heads, planted at twenty or thirty feet distance, and suffered to extend every way nearly according to their natural order of growth; though, for variety sometimes a few trees are cultivated, as dwarfs, for walls and espaliers, and trained in the order of wall trees, &c. nearly as directed for Peaches and Nectarines, and in which they often furnish larger and forwarder fruit than on standards.

Observing, that as this tree bears principally on the young wood, we, in performing the occasional prunings, must carefully preserve a general supply of each year's shoots as succession bearers; as in peaches, &c.