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on the previous season's growths. In order to have a 

 regular crop over all the tree at these two seasons, this 

 habit must be borne in mind, and the pruning performed 

 accordingly, so that the trees may be regularly furnished 

 with these two sets of growths. According to the illus- 

 tration, there are the main, or cordon branches, furnished 



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Fig. 19. 



with a set of lateral fruit-bearing growths. I recom- 

 mend that every alternate lateral be pruned back to 

 an eye, at 6, as is generally practised with the vine. 

 The other shoots are left as the summer pinching is 

 supposed to have left them, and wiU, if well ripened and 

 short-jointed, produce a fig at every bud, especially those 

 near their tops. Those cut back may form more than 

 one eye ; when this is the case, all should be rubbed off 

 but one, to be stopped by pinching or bruising its point, 

 when it has grown to from iive to seven joints, after which 

 stopping it very soon forces fruit from the axils of the 

 leaves, which fruit ripens in autumn. All attempts at 

 fresh growth beyond these autumn fruits should be 

 rubbed off as they make their appearance. In the case 

 of the previous year's wood, bearing the first or early 

 crop, a couple of joints of young growth is aU that should 

 be allowed. In the case of a weU-established tree, with 

 its roots thoroughly under control, and in a fertile state, 



