A PRICOTSPR UNING. 



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Where space requires filling between the main branches, an eligible side shoot is 

 allowed to extend, and another on the opposite side, which are to form the bearing parts 

 the following year. A branch of the kind described is shown in (I 7 ), and is termed a 



Fig. 26. LONG-PBUNIXG APEICOTS. (For references, see text ) 



subsidiary branch, to distinguish it from a main branch. No autumn pruning is required 

 for a subsidiary branch in its second year, unless the side shoots have been stopped, 

 when they are pruned as advised for (S) j and if the extremity or leading shoot exceed 



