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the main one must be pruned back to the middle of the 

 roof, and the lower one to the third eye. 



The third year, one leading shoot is to be trained in 

 from each cane, and, from the main cane, fruit-bearing 

 side shoots will be produced ; one bunch only on a shoot 

 should be retained, and the shoot stopped at one or two 

 eyes beyond it. No side shoots should be allowed to 

 grow from the spur or cane which was cut back, the 

 leading shoot from which is to become a fruit-bearing 

 cane the next year. 



In November, the shoot from the end of the fruit-bear- 

 ing cane must be cut at the top of the rafters, or within 

 a foot of the top, and the shoot from the spur must be 

 pruned back to the middle of the rafter, and all the spurs 

 that bore the fruit must be pruned oiit. 



T\\Q fourth year, a crop will be produced, both in the 

 iipper and lower part of the house, the long cane-bearing 

 on the upper part, and the shorter on its whole length ; 

 a leading shoot must be trained from the short cane, and 

 another, a new cane, from a spur below. 



In pruning, at the fall of the leaf, the long cane must 

 be taken entirely away, and replaced by the cane that 

 bore the fruit on the lower part ; the spurs on this must 

 be cut out, as on the cane last year, and the new cane 

 brought up this year, must be cut back to the middle of 

 the rafters ; a spur must be left below, to lead up a new 

 cane from, the next year. 



By this system, you have the whole length of rafters 

 fruited by two canes, and a third one is to be growing for 

 the next year, to supply the place of the one which is to 

 be cut out at the fall pruning. 



