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
La Quintinie, Jean de, 1626-1688., Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
67. Observation.
ALLthough the Branches that, according to the Order of Nature, shoot from the Ex∣tremities of other Branches are commonly of good Wood, yet some of them happen sometimes not to be so, especially growing from the lower part of Branches, which, being originally of False Wood, have been cut very short, or shooting from a Stump; or else, when in the very Year they only begin to shoot a long while after the others of the same Tree, (this happens but seldom, unless in Virgoulé-Pears,) which you must not wonder at, and only Prune those kind of Branches that appear ill-condition'd, leaving them of a moderate length; for you must seldom allow much length to such Branches of False Wood.
