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FRUIT CULTURE UNDER GLASS. 



when they had grown 6 or 7 inches long, they had the 

 terminal bud pinched out of them, and these shoots 

 started away again with generally two growths. The 

 plants were then shifted into 8 -inch pots, and encouraged 

 to grow in a warm moist house with plenty of light and 

 air. After being well ripened they were pruned back, 



FIG. 20. 



each shoot to three eyes, except some which were short 

 and stubby enough not to require it. The following 

 spring it was, along with several dozens of others, 

 some larger and some less, but all the same age, shifted 

 into 11 -inch pots after they began to grow, and they 



