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further encourage this lateral action, it is no: advisable to 
take out the overplus buds in the fall, at the same time 
that the cane is disbudded, for the simple reason that the 
plants are collecting food, and filling up the seemingly 
latent parts through the winter, excepting when the whole 
structure is frozen, and the channels of absorption thereby 
stopped ; consequently, all the buds receive a due share. 
Although a portion of this stored up nutriment is wasted. 
by allowing the useless buds to expand, we gain the ad 
vantage of encouraging a greater flow into the side branches 
until the time when the unfolding leaves are enabled to 
keep up the action. 
Another method of spur-pruning, and the one most gen- 
arranged along the cane; each year resting, or not allow- 
: to bear, every alternate spur, and when pruning, the 
eutting of all the spurs close down to one eye; or leaving 
those for fruiting the following season somewhat longer, 
and in the next fall eutting the same spur close into the 
cane; the object _— to keep the side branches “at 
ig. 17 shows the cane when pruned. itis 
good crops are ae produced in this way, with rig 
otherwise good treatment; but in the first instance 
are generally small, and although in 
the latter this is for a few years obviated, still there 
is the disadvantage of having to cut back to the 
main stem, and of trusting entirely to the buds which 
may thus be prompted to push forth. This close 
cutting weakens down the lateral force of the gga 
energy, in a short time the spurs become weak, and 
the whole cane has eventually to be cut dows: by 
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