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of shoots pushing from the spurs cut down, 

 fruitful spurs will have been produced, as 

 Fig. 6. B, b, such must be left entire. Those 

 spurs upon the branch which were not cut 

 down, as the spurs B, C, Fig. 5. may now 

 have four fruit buds left upon each spur. 



Summer Pruning. This must be performed 

 as before directed. 



Eleventh Year. Winter Pruning. Every 



other of those shoots trained in from that part 

 of the branch made the first year, must now be 

 pruned back to the lowest bud or spur there 

 is upon them, as Fig. 7. A, b. I adopt this 

 method of pruning back, the shoot trained 

 in, the first time, by cutting to a fruit bud 

 or spur; but when a second renewal is re- 

 quired, I cut the shoot down to an eye or 

 embryo of a bud, as A, a; and at the third, 

 to a bud or spur. This practice must regu- 

 larly be pursued in future. If it should hap- 

 pen, (but which will rarely be the case) that 

 there is not any appearance of an eye, then 

 cut it back to a bud or spur nearest its origin 

 as before directed. The spurs upon those 

 shoots trained in which are to remain, as Fig. 

 7. B, must have four or five fruit buds each, as 

 d, d, and the next (or twelfth) winter pruning, 

 they must retain the same quantity. When 

 the shoots produced by cutting back those, 

 as a, b, Fig. 7. have come to a bearing con- 

 dition the following winter pruning, the re- 

 maining shoots trained in, as B, B, must 



