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FRUIT TREES. 



shoots have given place to branches less vigorous, and 

 which are covered with flower-buds. 



In pruning these branches, we cut at the points A 

 (figs. 157 and 158), so as to preserve only the fruit- 

 buds of the lower part. During the following summer, 

 the new shoots, which give rise to certain wood-buds 



Fig. 157. New Treatment of Fruit-Branch. 



among the flower-buds, and which develop at the same 

 time as the fruit, must be removed by pinching, as 

 during the previous summer, and at the winter pruning 

 must be cut still shorter, to concentrate the action of 

 the sap towards the base, and to give rise to new fruit 



