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may be sent out from that point as well. Fig. 3 is three year old, and 

 when cnt at (a) in the yearling barren wood it gave out a fruitful 

 growth, which, when pruned (??) the following year sent out the (/) 

 shoot. It fruited on the buds (c) and (cZ), and produced two small 

 growths from these points as well. To keep this growth fruiting near 

 the leader prune it at (e) in the two-year-old wood next year. The 

 weak laterals, if they fruit on their points and send out extensions next 

 year, may be shortened back similarly at next pruning. Fig. 4, when 

 cut at (a) in the yearling barren wood, sent out an equally barren 

 growth to (&), but the following year, instead of fruiting on the 

 terminal bud, a growth with well-developed buds was produced. As 

 this fruitful wood is too far removed from the leader, the whole lateral 

 should be removed by pruning at (c), in order to de\'elop the two buds 

 below that point and to strengthen the small growth appearing there. 



Fig. 5, like Fig. 4, when pruned at (a) in the barren wood, gave out 

 a partly barren growth during the next year. This fruited on the bud 

 {h) during the succeeding year, and sent up an unfertile growth from 

 the bud above it. To prune this specimen cut at (c) as shown in order 

 to strengthen the partly developed fruit buds below that point. Fig, 6 

 is also three-year-old wood from the leader. It grew to (a) the terminal 

 bud during the first year, fruited on this bud, and sent up the barren 

 portion to {h) during the second year. During the third year the 

 portion from (&) to the point which is fruitful was produced. This 

 specimen should be pruned like (c) in order to develop the fruit buds 

 between this point and the leader. 



Plate 50 shows four Rome Beauty laterals of the class which usually 

 appears on old trees of this variety, the pruning of which has been 

 partly neglected or imperfectly executed. A neglected tree carrying 

 this class of fruit wood may be renovated by shortening back the laterals 

 as depicted in the illustration. 



Fig. 1 was bearing its fruit on spurs below (a) until two years ago, 

 when it gave out the barren growth (a) to (c), which was continued 

 from (c) upward last year. To regulate this specimen cut at (a) and 

 (h) to remove the strong wood and strengthen the spurs below these 

 points. 



"When Fig. 2 was pruned at {h) it sent out the growth to (c). This 

 continued to {d), (e), (/) and {g) during the succeeding years, and 

 finally fruited on the terminal bud {g) last year. This growth should 

 be removed to (a) at next pruning. 



Fig. 3 was also pruned, only once, at (6) after which the fertile 

 wood to (c) was produced, and it fruited as the scar indicates on the 

 terminal bud (c). During the next two years it extended to (e) and (/) 

 respectively. The following year it fruited at the terminal bud (/) and 

 produced the piece of wood above that point. The sublateral fruited at 

 the point {d), and subsequently developed the fruit spur on the extension. 

 To prune this specimen remove the upper portion by cutting at (a). 



Fig. 4 fruited on the terminal bud of the yearling wood at (o) and 

 produced the extension to (&). This point was then the terminal on 

 which it again fruited, and made the two-year-old wood above it. This 



