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Fig. 22. PROPER AND IMPROPER PRUNING BUDS. DISBUDDING AND THINNING. WINTER AND SUMMER PRUNING. 



References : Proper pruning buds : F, wood buds ; G, double bud p, wood bud, q, blossom bud. H, triple 

 bud r, wood bud, s, blossom buds. Improper pruning buds : J, single blossom bud. K, double blossom buds. 

 L, triple blossom buds. M, bearing shoot shortened. N, bearing branch with buds advanced and needing protection. 

 0, bearing branch with buds removed from the under side. P, bearing branch after the fruit is set t, disbudded 

 shoots ; u, growth to attract the sap to the fruit, pinched ; v, successional bearing shoot ; w, fruits removed at the first 

 thinning ; x.fruits removed at the second thinning ; y, fruits left for the crop. Q, bearing branch and successional bear- 

 ing shoot, showing z, fruits stoned and leaves drawn aside : a, shoot above the fruit, pinched ; 6, point of stopping the 

 successional bearing shoot ; c, laterals pinched ; d, sub-laterals stopped ; e, part to be removed at pinching ; /, lateral 

 on the successional bearing shoot, stopped. R, lateral from extension g, point of pinching ; h, point of winter 

 pruning. S, winter pruning, showing i, point of removing the bearing branch when the fruit is gathered ; j, point of 

 shortening the successional bearing shoot ; k, point of cutting off lateral ; I, proper position for the bearing branches ; 

 m, right place for training the successional bearing shoots ; n, latent basal buds ; o, taking a second successional shoot 

 from the base of a bearing branch a bad practice. 



