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It will be necessary to cut back the branch at A 

 (fig. 172), preserving a sufficient number of flower- 

 buds to force the sap towards the base, in order to 

 obtain new fruit-branches. The result of this operation 

 will be a new branch, like the figures 174 and 175. In 

 the first case (fig. 174) the primitive branch B at a y 

 and the new fruit-branch A at b, are cut in order to 

 obtain again the same result. On fig. 175 we suppress 

 one of the small branches at A to make a new fruit- 

 branch spring from the base, and so on every year. 



