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to allow E to become the leader. All the branches 

 should be shortened, the npper to three or four inches, 

 and the lower to six or eight, and the leader to ten or 

 twelve. Fig. 41, represents, at A and B, the incisions 

 which are made above a weak bud, or shoot, to check 



Fi«:. 40. 



Fig. 41. 



the flow of sap, and force it to their development, 

 C is the incision made below a strong shoot to check 

 its growth. 



It is important in pruning, to cut so near a bud that 



