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MARKET NURSERY WORK 



portion of the energy which the main growth needs. This 

 should be followed up regularly through even the busiest 

 part of the season and is well worth the doing, concentrating, 

 as it does, every atom of strength into the fruit-producing 

 parts. (See Fig. 5.) 



There used to be a system practised in the old days of stopping 



FIG. 5. Disbudding. Side Shoots marked thus \ to be taken out 



the growth one leaf above the truss, running the resultant top 

 break up as the leader until that in due course produced a truss, 

 repeating the process well on till late in the season. This 

 practice, we believe, died out with the advent of improved 

 and free setting varieties. This much can be said for it, that 

 there was rhyme and reason in the doing of it, though in these 

 days it is no longer necessary nor even helpful. 



