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TREATMENT OF THE 



should only be left. It will sometimes hap- 

 pen, that after a tree has borne fruit a year 

 or two, the shoots that push at the ends of 

 the branches, will have a few fruitful buds, 

 as Fig. 2. e, formed upon them the first 

 summer; such buds must remain, as they 

 will be productive the season following. 



Summer Pruning. — Attention must be paid 

 to this, in shortening the shoots, or thinning 

 them away, agreeably to the instructions 

 already given. 



Sixth Year. — -Winter Pruning. — In order to 

 convey a correct method of the treatment of 

 the spurs at this time, it will be necessary 

 to point them out by numbers, as one, two, 

 and three. The enumeration will proceed 

 from the bole of the tree along the branch, 

 as far as the spurs extend upon each sepa- 

 rate year's wood; after these spurs are thus 

 numbered, I begin again, and proceed with 

 No. 1. &c. agreeably to Fig. 5. 



Fig. 5. 



Every spur No. 1. on the first year's wood, 



