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lateral growths at regular intervals, and the cordon 

 growths produced this season. My practice in prun- 

 ing figs thus trained horizontally, and from which two 

 crops are to be annually ripened, differs somewhat 

 from that usually pursued, and may be described as a 

 mixture of vine-pruning on the close-spur system and 

 ordinary peach-pruning. The accompanying woodcut, 

 fig. 19, will illustrate at a glance what I mean by this, 

 and serve for the rule which I consider the best in fig- 

 pruning generally. It may be explained to the tyro, 

 that the first crop of fruit produced in fig-forcing is 

 got from the young wood of the previous summer's 



FIG. 19. 



growth ; and the second, which ripens generally in 

 September and October, from the young growths of 

 the same summer, and which are produced contempor- 

 aneously with the first crop of fruit on the previous 

 season's growths. In order to have a regular crop 

 over all the tree at these two seasons, this habit must 

 be borne in mind, and the pruning performed accord- 

 ingly, so that the trees may be regularly furnished 

 with these two sets of growths. According to the 

 illustration, there are the main, or cordon branches, 

 furnished with a set of lateral fruit-bearing growths. I 



