Excerpt from The British Fruit-Gardener and Art of Pruning: Comprising, the Most Approved Methods of Planting and Raising Every Useful Fruit-Tree and Fruit-Bearing-Shrub, Whether for Walls, Espaliers, Standards, Half-Standards, or Dwarfs; The True Sucessful Practice of Pruning, Training, Grafting, Budding, &C. So Concerning Common Standards, the reader will alfo find a'fnple direfiifinsa thefe do not require, indeed, like Wall: trees, a general pruning; a firie't attention, however, as well to their early growth, as to their advanced Rate, being neeefs fary, they were nor to be omitted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.