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PROFITABLE FRUIT-GROWING. 



blossom and fruit producers, the small buds growth 

 extenders. The terminal bud, it may be noticed, is 

 a blossom bud, and should be cut 

 jg^ off for starting the buds below into 



growth, if extension is desired 

 but if the shoot had been short- 

 ened half way down the year pre- 

 vious, what are blossom buds now 

 would have been forced into 

 shoots, crowding the tree with use- 

 less wood, above referred to as an 

 evil to be avoided. We want, not 

 a thicket of useless growths, but a 

 series of thinly disposed branches 

 studded with fruit buds from the 

 base to near the extremity; then, 

 with a favourable season, we have 

 the reward of as much fruit as a 

 tree is capable of producing. And 

 what is more, indeed the gist of 

 the whole question, any cottager 

 can, by following the plain instruc- 

 tions given, produce such a tree. 



Fig. 29, page 81, will show 

 exactly what to strive for. It i? 



Fig. 28.-APPLF a photographic reproduction of a 

 BRANCH WITH FRUIT , -r A i 



AND WOOD BUDS. Cox's Orange Pippin Apple, ne- 



