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corner, but the second year's tree will show what 

 here is meant. The dotted lines indicate the 

 position of all future leaders, and thus E E ex- 

 plains how (in the case of the corner tree only) 

 a future vertical leader in the direction E E 

 will ascend, and future diagonal leaders be de- 

 veloped from this, the only vertical one, as 

 marked F F. 



Winter Pruning. Let us suppose thatwhen the 

 leaves drop off from the trees there will appear two 

 shoots on each spur, each shoot composed of the 

 various growths of this season. Now the fruit will 

 only appear on the wood of the second year. In 

 this case the fruit buds nearest to the spurs them- 

 selves are on this wood, and the fruit will appear 

 at the base of the spurs, and only in some cases 

 at their top. Of course the trees are very 

 young to bear, but they will do so in many 

 cases, and if this occur, then only one or two 

 peaches must be allowed to remain on each tree. 

 By the close spurring-in practised during the 

 summer, and the not having had recourse to the 

 old and ridiculous method of choosing long weak 

 shoots for the bearing wood, the buds at the 

 base of the spurs will generally become Fruitful. 

 All the fruit, if any, will appear on the bearing 

 wood at the base. The young tender laterals 

 on the young extremity of the leader, which has 

 ascended some way upwards, must be pinched 

 down to two buds previously to this period. 



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