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in pine stoves, or to fill the trellis in common vineries. 

 In such cases much care is required that a regular 

 and sufficient number of the fruit buds should break 

 from top to bottom, and prevent the lower part of 

 such shoots from being quite naked and barren. To 

 avoid this let the pruner, after cutting the shoot to 

 the required length, and finding, from the firm texture 

 of the wood, that it is sufficiently ripened, proceed 

 to thin the buds as follows : viz. leave the uppermost 

 bud, which may be called 1, cut out 2 and 3, leave 

 4, and cut out 5 and 6, leaving 7, and displacing 8 

 and 9, and so on to the bottom of the shoot. This 

 thinning of the eyes will cause all those which are 

 left to break regularly, and so alternating with each 

 other, that the disposition, whether for the sake of 

 superior fruit or facilitating the future management 

 of the tree, will be found exactly what the manager 

 would wish ; he taking care to stop all the young 

 shoots in their progress, immediately beyond the 

 fruit, except the lowest, which must be trained to its 

 full length for similar management the following year. 

 (Gard. Mag. ii. 413.) 



Summer Pruning consists in rubbing off ill-placed 

 and superfluous shoots as soon as they appear, and in 

 shortening or stopping those destined for bearing. 



Stopping, it has been well observed, has its limits, 

 the passing of which will lead to weakness in the 

 constitution of the vine. Two reasons seem to exist 



