 | William Forsyth, William Cobbett - Fruit - 1802 - 420 pages
...hollow, and every part where the canker has been cut out, or branches lopped off, with the Compofition ; and, as the edges grow, take care not to let the new...in contact with the dead, part of which it may be fometimes neceflary to leave ; but cut out the old dead wood as the new advances, keeping a hollow... | |
 | James Malcolm (land surveyor.) - Agriculture - 1805 - 532 pages
...hollow and even part where the canker has been cut out, or branches lopped off, with the composition ; and, as the edges grow, take care not to let the new...a hollow between them, to allow the new wood room 3 to extend itself, and thereby fill up the cavity, which it will do in time, so as to make as it were... | |
 | Bernard M'Mahon - Gardening - 1806 - 746 pages
...hollow, and every part where the canker has been cut out, or branches lopped of!', with the composition ; and, as the edges grow, take care not to let the new...dead, part of which it may be sometimes necessary to leare ; but cut out the old dead wood as the new advances, keeping a hollow between them, to allow... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1819 - 496 pages
...wood come in contact with the de.ad, .pj^rt of Y^hup.h i| may sometimes be necessary to leave, hat. cut out the old dead wood as the new advances, keeping...hollow between them to allow- the• new wood room tOl setf, and thereby fill up the cavity,..whlch it time, so us to make, as it were, a^new.trec. -vity... | |
 | Joseph Hayward - Fruit-culture - 1824 - 340 pages
...hollow, and every part where the canker has been cut out, or branches lopped off, with the composition ; and as the edges grow, take care not to let the new...come in contact with the dead, part of which it may sometimes be necessary to leave, but cut out the old dead wood as the new advances, keeping a hollow... | |
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... to extend itself, and thereby fill up the cavity, which it will do in time, so as to make as it were a new tree. If the cavity be large, you may cut away as much at one operation as will be sufficient for three years. 