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is those growing straight out from the trees, and even with those, 
should a fruit be at the base of any one of them do not remove it 
entirely but pinch the shoot and leave three leaves. In about 
three weeks afterwards the remaining shoots will get too thick, 
and then another thinning may be done, leaving on every branch 
of the winter-pruning, one shoot at the base on the upper side of 
the branch, one at the extremity of the branch called the leading 
shoot. I should also pinch two shoots on the under side of the 
branch to two leaves. This practice reduces the shoots to the 
least possible number, in fact it is only leaving one shoot to each 
branch to give fruit for next year, and as you know the branches 
made in the peach-tree this year give us the fruit next year. I 
would notice here too how important it is that you secure the 
shoot of this year at the base of the branch of last year ; by doing 
that you keep your trees furnished with young fruitful wood to 
the centres of the trees. Inattention to this will cause very 
unsightly trees with fruiting wood only at the extremities, 
Another circumstance is to be noticed in connection with the 
disbudding and summer-pruning of peach-trees. In peach-trees 
of fairly rude health there is a tendency of some shoots about 
the centres of the trees to grow stronger than the rest, to grow 
what is termed gross. The practised eye knows them at an early 
stage, and they should be at once taken clean off, because they 
never ripen enough to bear fruit, and grow gross at the expense 
of the other branches, whilst if taken off the less vigorous shoots 
grow stronger. 
Granted that the trees are growing under favourable circum- 
stances as to the house and border, the three things to be guarded 
most against are :— 
1. Green Fly, which shows itself at a very early stage of the 
tree’s growth. : 
As a remedy for this I greatly dislike fumigating, because I 
have seen whole crops of well-sized peaches lying on the ground 
from the fumigating material getting overheated during the 
operation. I always use a mild insecticide, applying one, that is 
to say, weak, but frequently, and I use it before much fly shows 
itself, on the principle, prevention is better than cure. I find 
liquid quassia the safest insecticide for the early tender foliage of 
the peach. Sometimes peach-trees develop at the beginning of 
