32 INFLUENCE OF PRODUCTIVENESS. 



warmer and longer summer of the following 1 year, 

 the fruit, which had been thinned by the frost, was 

 three inches in diameter, very handsome, and of 

 sweet and excellent flavor. The importance of 

 understanding these' influences, before deciding on 

 the quality of a new fruit, is hence at once evident. 

 The advantages of pruning are to be ascribed in 

 part to the same cause. 



