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 obtained several well-placed branches near the top of the stem, to adorn the head with a regular shape, should now suffer the whole to branch out freely every way, and only just reform with your knife any very irregular-placed branch, and long rambler, or thin out occasional crowded wood, leaving always the general supply of regular branches entire, and suffered to shoot according to nature.

Next, with regard to the wall and espalier Almonds; they having their first shoots from the budding headed down in the Spring, as already directed, and having obtained three, four, or more regular branches near the bottom, train them horizontally to the wall, equally