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Beauty, Cleopatra, and Irish Peach, do not develop spurs as readily, 

 and fail to do so when severely winter pruned. The latter type of 

 tree produces a number of thin laterals usually furnished with a 

 terminal blossom bud. To prune it away means the sacrifice of 

 immediate fruit and induces strong growth. When summer pruning 

 is not practised in conjunction with winter pruning, these laterals 

 are left uncut; if too numerous towards the centre of the tree they 

 are thinned ont. When this practice of leaving the laterals uncut 



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is adopted a greater sDur development takes place along the laterals 

 and tends to slow down the vigour of the shoot. When they need 

 strengthening to carry the fruit they have to bear they can be 

 shortened back to six or eight inches. It is a great mistake to presume 

 a tree to be unpruned unless each individual growth has been cut. 

 The protographs illustrate a spur-producer [Fig. 9 (apple) Ohenimun] 

 and a typical lateral bearer [Fig. 10 (apple) Irish Peach]. 



