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TREATMENT OF THE 



the tree at this time, such of the buds as ran 

 into wood shoots the last year, and were 

 shortened during summer agreeably to in- 

 structions given, must now be shortened 

 more. It frequently happens that a fruitful 

 bud, or in some instances two, will have 

 been formed at the lower part of the shoot 

 during the last summer, as Fig. 2. a, a; such 

 shoots must now be cut off about a quarter 

 of an inch above the uppermost of those 

 fruitful buds, as b; but as sometimes is the 

 case, if there have not been fruitful buds 

 produced, there will be growing buds, and 

 then the shoot must be cut down so as to 

 leave one bud, as c. 



On some occasions the growing buds will 

 appear but very indistinctly, and are in an 

 embryo state, yet by close observation they 

 will be easily perceptible. When this is the 

 case, the shoot must be cut down so as to 

 leave two of those embryo buds, as d, d; 

 this will generally be, to leave it about 

 half an inch in length. Upon that part of 

 the branch made the first year after plant- 

 ing of the tree, there will generally be some 



