PEAR TREE. 157 



When shoots are produced instead of fruit- 

 ful buds, as represented by d, d, k, k, they 

 must be pruned down once, or more if re- 

 quired, during summer, and at the winter 

 pruning they must be regulated agreeably 

 to the following directions. 



It will frequently be the case that a fruit- 

 ful bud will be formed at the lower part of 

 such a shoot; if two shoots situated in the 

 manner of the buds c, c, have each a fruitful 

 bud at its base, both of them may be left, 

 but otherwise, only one. If none of the 

 shoots should have a fruitful bud, then two 

 of them situated as before described must be 

 left, and be cut down to the lowest growing 

 bud upon them; and when a shoot pushes 

 the next summer, it must be nailed down in 

 the direction described by h, which will cause 

 it to form a fruit bud at the origin, as i ; and 

 at the next winter pruning the shoot must 

 be cut off just above such fruitful bud. This 

 method of nailing down shoots during the 

 summer in order to make them productive 

 of fruitful buds, may be practised upon any 

 part of the tree when circumstances require 

 it. 



When the spurs thus cut down and regu- 

 lated agreeably to directions, have borne 

 fruit a proper length of time, as laid down 

 in the instructions already given, they must 

 then be cut down to the lowest bud, or en- 

 tirely away as before, and as the case requires; 



