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there will generally be a fruitful bud or more 

 formed at the lower part of them, as Fig. 3. 

 a, a; such fruitful buds must be retained, 

 and the shoot be pruned off at b. In ad- 

 dition to those fruit buds, there will fre- 

 quently be several more proceeding from 

 the side of the spur, as c, c; all such must 

 be left. 



Kg. 3. 



If a spur be destitute of fruitful buds at 

 the lower part of a shoot, and instead of 

 having them so situated, should have only 

 one or two at the upper part of a shoot which 

 was shortened last summer, as d, d, the 

 shoot must be cut off just above the upper- 

 most fruitful bud, as e. Those spurs which 

 did not produce any shoots, as Fig. 3. f, f, 

 must retain all the fruitful buds there are 

 upon them. It will generally happen that 

 there will now be fruitful buds formed from 

 the embryos to which some of the shoots 

 were cut down at the last winter pruning, 

 as Fig. 2. c, they must be left entire. Such 

 of the shoots as were cut down to a growing 



