134 TREATMENT OF THE 



should only be left. It will sometimes hap- 

 pen, that after a tree has borne fruit a year 

 or two, the shoots that push at the ends of 

 the branches, will have a few fruitful buds, 

 as Fig. 2. e, formed upon them the first 

 summer; such buds must remain, as they 

 will be productive the season following. \ 



Summer Pruning. Attention must be paid 

 to this, in shortening the shoots, or thinning 

 them away, agreeably to the instructions 

 already given. 



Sixth Year. Winter Pruning. In order to 

 convey a correct irieffie^of the treatment of 

 the spurs at this time^ it will be necessary 

 to point them out by numbers, as one, two, 

 and three. * The enumeration will proceed 

 from the bole of the tree along the branch, 

 as far as the spurs extend upon each sepa- 

 rate year's wood; after these spurs are thus 

 numbered, I begin again, and proceed with 

 No. 1. &c. agreeably to Fig. 5. 



Fig. 5. 



b 1 



spur No. 1 . on the first year's wood,. 



