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Vig. 4. b, will generally now have two 

 fruitful buds, if so, they must be allowed 

 to keep them, cutting away any shoot that 

 may have pushed and was shortened during 

 the summer, down to such buds, as Fig. 5. 

 spur C, f, f. The future treatment of these 

 spurs must be attended to agreeably to the 

 instructions previously laid down. The re- 

 mainder of the spurs No. 1. cut down last 

 winter pruning to a growing bud, which 

 pushed a shoot and was shortened during 

 summer, will generally have fruitful buds 

 at the lower part of them, as Fig. 5. g, the 

 spur must then be cut down to h. The 

 spurs No. 2. must have three fruitful buds 

 left, as Fig. 5. i, and the spurs No. 3. four, 

 as k. 



Summer Pruning. This must be regulated 

 as already directed. 



Fig. 6. 



Ninth Year. Winter Pruning. The spurs 

 No. 1. must be allowed to retain whatever 

 fruitful buds there may be upon them, and 

 there will generally be two at least, as Fig. 



