PROPAGATION AND PRUNING OF CURRANTS. 



Fig. 1274. — Natural Growth of Currant, 



stem between the surface of the soil and 

 the first branches. If the cuttings are 

 planted in the fall, the three buds that 

 are left will each make a growth of at 

 least eight or ten inches during the fol- 

 lowing summer. At the fall pruning 

 these shoots should be cut back to two 

 buds each ; from these, two more 



shoots will be formed the next season 

 thus forming a bush of six branches. 

 These branches should all be cut back 

 at the winter pruning, so as to leave 

 them from four to six inches long, being 

 always careful to cut back to an outward 

 bud. Each terminal shoot should be 

 cut back, at the winter pruning, until 



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