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which it proceeds, as Fig. 5. F. If that part 

 of the branch produced the first year after 

 the planting of the tree, extends eighteen 

 inches farther than the first spur which was 

 cut down, as B, let another spur be cut down 

 at that distance from the first, as C, and ano- 

 ther shoot be trained in between the branches, 

 but it must be at the opposite side of the 

 branch from the other, as E. This regular 

 system of nailing in a shoot between the 

 branches every eighteen inches, must be 

 practised in every part of the tree when the 



Fig. 5. 



B 



spurs are at the same age. Thus some spurs 

 must be cut down, in order to produce a shoot, 

 at the next winter pruning, upon that part 

 of the branch which was produced the second 

 year after the planting of the tree, &c. 



Those spurs that did not require to be 

 cut down in order to produce shoots, as 

 E, F, must each retain three lateral fruit 

 spurs, as D. If such spurs D, D, are situated 



