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PROFITABLE FRUIT-GROWING. 



misunderstood, half the bush is represented as 

 pruned, the other half unpruned. It will be seen 

 that in the pruned part, space is afforded so that the 

 hand can pass down to the base of the branches for 

 gathering the fruit, should there be any ; a bush, 

 however, soon ceases bearing except on the outside, 



Fig-. 16. HALF PEUNED GOOSEBEKKY. 



if this unfortunate thicket system is permitted to 

 continue, and it will become worse during each 

 year of neglect in pruning. 



Cropping and Summer Pruning. It now 

 remains to show the results of keeping the branches 

 thinly disposed for the production of spurs, which 

 cannot form when the growths are crowded. Fig 

 17, page 51, represents the individual branch of a 

 Gooseberry bush on which spurs have formed, 



