26 THE FRUIT-TREE AND SHRUB PRUNER. 



wise would. To prove this theory correct use the 

 very same tree differently, and follow up the plan of 

 summer stopping, and then it will be seen that there 

 will be more fruit buds than are wanted to produce a 

 good crop of fruit. Some will say, But you cannot 

 change the nature of each class of bud. I admit that 

 a fruit bud will remain so for the time ; nor can a 

 wood bud be changed immediately from its own special 

 character to one of another ; but at the same time the 

 wood spur can be made to produce fruit buds in the 

 following season by the simple treatment referred to 

 above, while a fruit bud, or rather a spur, will com- 

 pletely change from its character to a wood-bearing 

 spur only in one or two seasons, merely by allowing 

 a Pear to grow on through the season, and then to 

 prune it off during the winter time only. 



When a young Pear for a trained or pyramidal tree 

 is planted lift the tree every alternate season for some 

 years. This will induce the tendency to form a niatty 

 fibrous root, which will produce a corresponding state in 

 the branches. 



Fig. 24. 



Fig. 24 is an example of a young cordon-trained 

 Pear ; Fig. 25 of the treble cordon Pear checked 

 and summer-stopped, forming a well-favoured fruit- 

 bearing tree. Of course cordon Pears may be multi- 

 plied in this way to almost anj r extent, and trained in a 





