as trained against a Wall. 



the uppermost of the fruitful buds (b) : but (as it is sometimes 

 the case), if there have not been fruitful buds produced, there 

 will be growing buds, and then the shoots are cut down so as to 

 leave one bud. {Jig. 2. c.) On some occasions the growing 

 buds and fruitful buds will 

 appear but very indistinctly, 

 and in an embryo state; 

 when this is the case the 

 shoots are cut down so as 

 to leave two of those em- 

 bryo buds {d d). There are 

 generally some natural fruit buds which did not push to 

 shoots, all such are left entire (e). They are of a reddish 

 colour, and are easily distinguished from growing buds, which 

 are considerably less and all of a dark colour. 



Summer Pruning. This summer the fruitful buds are pro- 

 ductive. When the fruit has swelled a little, a shoot generally 

 proceeds from the stem of the spur (which it may now be 

 called), just underneath the fruit : such are allowed to grow 

 eight or ten inches long, and are then shortened back to 

 two inches, or so as to leave three eyes upon each. 



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strength 



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thrown 



into the fruit, and, during summer, two or more fruit buds are 

 generally produced at the bottom of the shoot thus cut down 

 {<ftg. 3. b b\ or, otherwise, from the lower part of the spur. 

 {Jig. 3. c.) It sometimes occurs that, when the tree is very 

 vigorous, some of the buds {Jig. 3. b b) will push into shoots, 

 or occasionally into bloom, during the latter end of summer. 

 If shoots, they are allowed to grow, and are then shortened, 

 as described for similar shoots ; but, when bloom is produced, 

 it is immediately cut off close under the blossom. 



The shoots {Jig. 2. c) produced after the third year's winter 

 pruning are allowed to grow, and are then shortened, as 

 already directed for similar shoots. {See Second Year's Summer 

 Pruning.) The shoots which were pruned as directed last 



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