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CHAPTER VIII. 



The necessity and advantages of Spurring those kinds of fruit 

 trees which are directed in this work to be treated in that 

 manner. 



IN the following observations, there is 

 laid down the method which I pursue with 

 the different sorts of fruit trees that bear 

 upon spurs; with the exception of those 

 persons to whom I have imparted the method 

 I practice, and who have adopted it through 

 a conviction of its advantages, I never saw 

 it practised by any but myself. A part of 

 the plan is stated in a paper communicated 

 to the Horticultural Society of London, in 

 January 1818, Vol. 3d, page 41, how far 

 the observations there stated have influenced 

 individuals to adopt it, I can form no idea of, 

 but I have reason to believe that it has been 

 successfully practised by some. The process 

 which was treated of in part there, is here 

 more fully explained, and if the directions 

 in pruning the tree agreeably to this system 

 be attended to, success is the certain result, 

 unless casualties such as frost and insects, 

 counteract the advantages which otherwise 

 would have been realized. 



It is essential to those who have the ma- 



