The compleat gard'ner, or, Directions for cultivating and right ordering of fruit-gardens and kitchen-gardens with divers reflections on several parts of husbandry, in six books : to which is added, his treatise of orange-trees, with the raising of melons, omitted in the French editions / by the famous Monsr De La Quintinye ... ; made English by John Evelyn ... ; illustrated with copper plates.

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Title: The compleat gard'ner, or, Directions for cultivating and right ordering of fruit-gardens and kitchen-gardens with divers reflections on several parts of husbandry, in six books : to which is added, his treatise of orange-trees, with the raising of melons, omitted in the French editions / by the famous Monsr De La Quintinye ... ; made English by John Evelyn ... ; illustrated with copper plates.
Author: La Quintinie, Jean de, 1626-1688.
Publication: London :: Printed for M. Gillyflower ...,; 1693.
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Subject terms: Gardening -- Early works to 1800.; Fruit-culture.
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28. Observation.

THE farther a weak Branch is distant from the Heart of the Tree, the less Nourish∣ment it receives; therefore, in such Occasions, we must draw nearer upon the lowest; whereas, on the contrary, the farther a thick Branch is distant from the Heart, the more Nourishment it receives; for which reason it must be remov'd, in order to keep the Vi∣gour in the middle, or in the lower part of the Tree.