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APPENDIX II. 



the ground, and that the leaf aforesaid is situated opposite the 

 second cluster. This cluster is taken off and the shoot is cut 

 immediately above this leaf, as in b, Fig. 85. The top of the two 





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Fig. 85. 



other shoots is then removed in order to hinder them from too 

 great a growth to the detriment of the shoot upon which it is 

 intended to operate. We may then proceed to train it upon the 

 frame. The shoot under treatment is placed in a vertical posi- 

 tion, and the two others are attaclied at an angle of forty-five 

 degrees. A premature stipulary shoot will be seen immediately 

 to spring from the axil of the leaf of the cut shoot (a, Fig. 85). 

 This shoot should be broken when only an inch or two in 

 length, so that the bud b at the base of this shoot is forced to 

 develop itself. Before long this bud gives birth to a shoot 



Fig. 86. 



