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PBUNINO AND MANAGEMENT OF TlIK I'KAt II TKEE. 



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grow to the required extent. 1 

 suppress all lliij cyvs in tlic intfi- 

 vals of tlio three shoots 6, h, b, and 

 I encourage the growth of the lat- 

 ter, in order to convert them into 

 fruit-branches. "When these are 

 obtained, and the branches a, a, 

 trained as near as possible to the 

 principal branch that bears them, 

 no naked space appears, and the 

 branch is as well covered at this 

 place as elsewhere. The three 

 shoots b, b, ft, are treated in the 

 same way as the fruit-branches ; 

 and being successively replaced, 

 like them, they produce fruit 

 equally as well. This simple pro-' 

 ceeding is advantageous in two 

 ways ; it prevents the branch from 

 being naked, and it aftbrds fruit 

 from the three fruit-branches on 

 each side, of wliieh we should have been deprived if this proceeding had been neglected. 

 Ten years ago, at Andilly, I had occasion to cover, in this way, some principal branches 

 that were naked to a very great extent. In order to do so, I allowed a young branch, 

 trained in the above-mentioned way, to grow along the naked branches, securing it 

 close to the latter by including both in the same fastenings. In this way the naked 

 branches were covered, while the means employed were scarcely perceptible. 



111. We now readily cover naked portions of branches by means of inarching. It 

 is thus performed: — Part of the end of a young shoot originating below the naked 

 part is trained along the naked branch ; we raise from the latter a strip of bark as 

 broad as the thickness of the shoot, and about an inch and a quarter in length, and 

 we apply to this barked portion a part of the shoot sliced to half its thickness, with 

 an eye in the middle. The inarched shoot is secured with worsted, leaving the top of 

 the shoot free. This operation may be performed from April to August. In the fol- 

 lowing spring, early or late, according to the state of vegetation, the inarched shoot is 

 divided from its original base immediately below where it was united to the naked 

 branch ; and no more scar is left than results from a shield-bud. 



112. It may happen that during the winter-nailing it is necessary to suppress use- 

 less eyes. Instead, however, of entering into details respecting that operation, it will 

 be better to proceed with the subject in hand. 



113. B, Summer-nailing. The summer-nailing consists in fastening to the wall, 

 when needful, those young shoots made by the wood-buds subsequently to the winter- 

 pruning and nailing. 



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