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FRUIT AND ITS CULTIVATION. 



fruit buds are formed plentifully along the last year's 

 growth, the terminal one often being the only wood bud. 

 The same remarks apply to standard trees that are not 

 pruned. A spur is a cluster of fruit and leaf buds, and 

 may be readily distinguished by its whorl of leaves and 

 the absence of shoots. 



Fig. 17. SUMMER PRUNING MORELLO CHERRIES. 



(K) Shoots reserved and laid in on the upper side of the branches, (i) Shoots 

 laid in on the underside, the wrong- way. (j) Leading: shoots, which must not 

 be summer pruned. Bars indicate where to prune in winter. 



Summer Pruning. This is usually practised only in 

 the case of trained trees i.e., pyramids, fan-trained, and 

 cordons. , It would be difficult to summer prune tall stan- 

 dards, at any rate, when they attain a large size. In their 

 younger stage a little judicious summer pruning is Bene- 



