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PRUNING. 



mer treatment of the two-year-old tree, fig. 1 10, will be 

 conducted on the same principles. The encouragement 

 of the leading shoot will require special attention to se- 

 cure it in an upright posi- 

 tion, as, in many cases, 

 where two-year-old wood is 

 cut back, the leading shoots 

 assume a horizontal or 

 curved direction. 



The Second Pruning. 

 We have now a tree com- 

 posed of two sections; the 

 first is the two -year -old 

 part, furnished with lateral 

 branches; and the second, 

 the leading shoot produced 

 last season (fig. 113). In 

 pruning it, our object will 

 be to establish a new sec- 

 tion of branches on the 

 leader, to continue the pro- 

 longment of the lower 

 branches, and to induce the 

 formation of fruit - spurs 

 towards their base. To ac- 

 complish these ends, we 

 shorten the leader or stem, 

 on the same principle, in re- 

 lation to its character, as 

 already directed for the 

 in. yearling trees, from one- 



Pear-tree three years old, twice half to tWO-thirds its length, 

 pruned ; the third pruning is indicated and Sometimes more. Every 



bud between the one we 



cut to and the base of the shoot, should push ; and the 

 bud to produce the leader should be large, perfectly 



