150 TREATMENT OF THE 



growing bud, to one or two fruitful buds, or 

 cutting them entirely away, agreeably to the 

 instructions given in Fig. 3. c, c. The em- 

 bryo buds Fig. 2. cl, will now have attained 

 such a state of maturity as to bear fruit the 

 next summer, they must be allowed to re- 

 main in the state they are, as i, Fig. 3. 



Summer Pruning. This must be attended 

 to by cutting down all shoots to two inches 

 long, which must be repeated, if required. 



Sixth Year. Winter Pruning. At this time 

 all the spurs as described in Fig. 3. must be 

 allowed to retain all the fruit buds there are 

 upon them, and all wood shoots must be cut 

 away in the manner laid down in treating 

 on the fifth year, so as to retain a bud as 

 near to the origin of each spur as possible. 



Summer Pruning. This must be performed 

 agreeably to instructions already given. 



Seventh Year. Winter Pruning. In order 

 properly to explain the method of pruning 

 the spurs in regular succession, as is now^ to 

 be recommended, I shall treat upon them by 

 numbers, one, two, and three, as already 

 done in the directions for pruning Apples, 

 beginning from the bole and proceeding 

 along the branches as far as the wood made 

 the first year, extends. 



At this time all the spurs No. 1 . must be 

 <mt down. 



If there be either a growing or fruitful 

 bud about half an inch from the bottom, as 



