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GBNEUAL I'laNCIPLES. 



results in one season that two or more would l)e required 

 for, if we depended wholly on the winter pruning. We 

 will suppose, for an example, the case of a young nursery 

 tree in tlie second year, intended for a standard. In ordi- 

 nary cases, the terminal bud, either the natural one or 



Fig. 85, A — Fig. 85, B. — puuning and pinching. ^ 



Fig 85, A, licad of a young tree ; b. tlic leader; «, a, vigorous shoots l)elow 



it, that ought to have been pinclied. Fig. 85, B, a branch of the pear, twice cut 



baclj, with the lateral shoots pinched ; a, o, the first section ; c, c, c, the second; 



b, and d, d, shoots pinched close to favor the leader and those below them. 



that pruned to, is developed into tlie leading shoot or 

 stem, and a greater or less number of buds below it pro- 

 duce branches; and it frequently happens that some of 



