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year's wood, but generally they bear upon spurs, which 

 come out of the sides of the limb itself until it gets to 

 be very large, and afterwards come out of the lower buds 

 of little side-shoots that have been cut off; and these 

 purs last for a great many years. When you gather an 

 apple in the fall, you will, if the tree be in vigour, see a 

 blossom-bud, ready, coming out of the same spur, to 

 bear the next year j and I ought to observe here, that 

 the greatest possible care should be taken (as it never 

 is) not to pull off the spur when you pull off the apple. 

 Gentlemen who are curious in these things actually cut 

 off cherries with a scissors, except the morellos, and one 

 or two other sorts, which bear pretty generally on the 

 last year's wood, to avoid the danger of pulling off the 

 spurs. It being the fact, that the trees bear upon spurs, 

 there needs no new supply of limbs or of shoots -, and, 

 therefore, the little side-shoots that come out of the 

 limbs ought to be cut clean out about the latter end of 

 July, unless there be a deficiency of spurs upon the 

 limb ; and, in that case, the little side-shoots should be 

 cut off, leaving one bud, or, perhaps, two, if the joints 

 be short, and these will frequently send out spurs. Let 

 us now go back to the second year after planting the 

 tree, when we had got two lateral shoots running 

 horizontally, and one upright shoot. Each of these 

 lateral shoots will send out two side-shoots near their 

 point, and one at their point, to go straight forward : 

 that one is to be suffered to go on, but the others must 

 be shortened to one bud : the same thing will happen 

 next year, when the same operation is to be performed, 

 and at the same season: thus, at last, you have a limb 

 ten feet long, furnished with spurs from one end to the 



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