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FRUIT TREES. 



Fourth Tear. During the third summer, the fruit- 

 spur, shown at fig. 63, has fructified. It has formed, 



Fig. 68. Fruit-Spur after 

 first Fructification. 



Fig< 67. Shoot doubly Fractured. Fig. 69. Fruit-Spur with small Branch. 



at the point where the fruit grew, and its accompanying 

 rosette of leaves, a kind of spongy swelling, shown at 

 figs. 68 and 69, called a purse (bourse). We observe, 

 besides, certain buds borne upon very short branches 

 springing from the leaf-roots of the purse. These 

 become flower-buds in the course of two or three years. 

 Sometimes one of the eyes growing at the leaf-roots 

 develops itself into a vigorous shoot. It must be 

 pinched to four inches. The small branch, which is 

 the result of this (A, fig. 69), must then receive the 

 complete fracture at C. The only further care to be 

 applied to the purses consists in cutting off the top, 



