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stopping the leader longer and stronger than usual, so we 

 must up to this time have double, or more than double, the 

 usual quantity of fruit. After the temporary trees are re- 



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moved, the crops will be still larger. Riders would not have 

 answered the same purpose, as they would have already in- 

 terfered for the last two or three years with the principals, 

 that is, on a wall not exceeding twelve feet ; and on this plan 

 the temporary trees are to be retained three or four years 

 longer, during which time they may be expected to produce 

 considerable crops. The extremities of the horizontal branch 

 being now within a foot or two of the stem of the next tree, 

 the management of the permanent trees is to be altered. 

 Instead of pinching off all shoots as they appear, at every 

 fifteen or eighteen inches all along the horizontal branches, 

 retain a well-placed shoot, pinching off all the rest as before ; 

 train these selected shoots in an easy slanting position upwards 

 towards the branches of the temporary trees. Next year con- 

 tinue to train them in the same direction ; and in order to 

 give them more room, elevate the branches of the temporary 

 trees six inches above the place they have hitherto occupied 

 (fig. 70.). The third year the shoots will most likely show 



blossom : the free-bearing sorts will do so in two years ; but it 

 must be recollected, we are speaking exclusively of the shy 



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