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about half an inch above the bud, and to slope 

 inlhe same direction with it. 



Whatever lateral shoots are produced upon 

 the leading shoots of the branches during the 

 second summer, let them be treated as directed 

 for similar shoots the last year. The shoots 

 which push from the laterals trained in last 

 summer, as c, must be regulated when they 

 attain two inches in length. If the tree shoots 

 very vigorously three, and in extreme cases 

 four of them must be left to each lateral shoot, 

 as d, d, d, d. But otherwise only two, as e, e ; 

 all the others, as f, f, f, f, must be rubbed clean 

 off, and the shoot remains as g, g. When a 



Ftg. 1. 



shoot does not push laterals in any part 

 where wood is desired, let the end of such a 

 shoot be pinched off about the middle of June, 

 which will cause wood to be produced. To- 

 wards autumn, let a few leaves be dressed 

 away so that the wood and buds get well 

 matured. ( See Chapter on thinning the leaves 



