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or bowed, and tied to a stake. The same 

 treatment follows year after year. 



Fig. 58. - Fig. 59. Fig. 60. 



Mgs. 60 and 61 show a better form of the 

 bow system. In this the two canes, at the close 

 of the second year, are both cut to spurs, each 

 having two buds. From each spur two canes 

 are grown, and fruited. The next pruning is 

 as follows : the lowest cane on each spur is cut 

 to two buds for a new spur, and the remaining 

 canes shortened to about two feet, and bent as 

 in Fig. 61. The bows are fruited their whole 



