THE PEACH AND NECTARINE. 



ISS 



summer to bear the following season. In pruning sucli 

 a tree, the last year's wood, shown by the solid lines, 

 is cut off close to the young wood which is to supply 

 the next year's crop. 



Fig. 16. 



Some make a practice of cutting back the young bear- 

 ing wood to two-thirds its length. I do not advocate this 

 indiscriminately. Where the shoots are long and not 

 well ripened, and the buds consequently weak, they, 

 should be shortened back to where the wood is firm, 



