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what as represented in the accompanying figure, and after a few 
more years will represent the appearance shown in the woodeut. 
Six years’ ramified fruit spur. Eight years’ fruit spurs on a dart. 
It is now advisable, in order to have fine fruit, to eut some of 
these buds back, so as to insure to the fruit a sufficient supply of 
sap, and this is done as shown above. The sap then forces into 
erowth some fresh dormant buds at the base of the enlargement. If 
the fruit buds have already grown to large dimensions, they are 
gradually cut back, the first year to B, and the following at C, and 
the next at D. Should they be eut straight away at D, there will 
in all probability not be much fruit the next year, whilst the tree 
will be forced into fresh wood growth. i 
Method of pruning an old fruit spur.—Dvu Breuiu. 
NoTE.—Most of the illustrations given in the chapters on pruning the apples, 
pears, and apricots are from Du Breuil’s “Culture of Fruit Trees.’’—A.D. 
