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 retained at four or five inches distance, should generally in this, the Winter pruning, be mostly shortened, more or less; the smaller shoots to eight or ten inches, and the stronger ones to twelve, fifteen or eighteen inches, or two feet long, or more, according to their strength, to promote their producing more certainly a requisite supply of lateral shoots next Summer from the lower eyes, properly situated to train in for succession bearers, as in the Apricot, Peach, and other trees, that bear principally on the young wood. (See peaches, &c.)

Then, as soon as ever a tree is thus Winter-pruned, let the whole be directly nailed regularly to the wall, or