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q, and J y] have each a bud or buds in their axils, and from one or more of the 



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Fig. 25. NATURAL SPURS. SHORT PRUNING. CLUSTER GROWTHS or PEACH TREES. 



References ; D, long natural spur in leaf. E, long spur leafless. F, short spur in leaf. G, short spur leafless. 

 H, part of cordon tree under short-pruning : m, extension growth ; n, bearing shoot : numerals, joints to be 

 counted in stopping ; dotted bars, points of pinching laterals and sub-laterals ; bars, points of winter pruning ; 

 o, short bearing shoot. /, bearing branch (p), and successional bearing shoot (</) : r, growth to attract the sap 

 to the fruit ; s, point of cutting off bearing branch when the fruit is gathered. /, cluster growths and spurring : 

 t, stubby shoot in leaf ; u, stubby shoot leafless ; v, growths from last year's shortened spur, or cut-back shoot 

 or branch ; 10, basal growths ; x, strong shoot of the current year, shortened to the second leaf leaves omitted; 

 y, growths resulting from the shortening of the shoot (a;). 



uppermost second growths will burst. As soon as the second growth has made four 



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