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Apple Ctdture in Victoria. 



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method. It should be pruned at (a) and extended from (h). Fig. 4, 

 (a) to (h), is three-year-old barren wood, which was pruned short last 



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Plate 44. — Rome Beauty leader growths. 



year into tlie two-year-old wood iit {h). .\.s u.''ually happens when two 

 growths are produced on this cL-i.^s of wood, a fertile leader (a) was 



