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fruit bud, which must be left as A, Fig. 7. 

 And the spur B, will have made a shoot, at 

 the side of which, a fruit bud is generally 

 formed ; if it be near to the bottom of it, let 

 the shoot be shortened just above it, but if 

 the fruitful bud be at the end of the shoot as 

 spur B, Fig. 7. a, let the shoot be cut down 

 below it as at b. 



Summer Pruning. — This must be perform- 

 ed agreeably to directions for the previous 

 year's, wood and spurs. 



Ninth Year. — Winter Pruning. — The spurs 

 No. 1. must be allowed to have four fruit 

 buds each, Fig. 8. a, a, a, a, the spurs No. 2. * 

 to have two fruitful buds, as b, b, and the 

 spurs No. 3. to have three, as c, c, c, 



Fig. 8. 



Always leave those buds that are nearest 

 to the origin of each spur. If any spurs 

 were cut entirely down, let such shoots or 

 buds as were afterwards produced, be regu- 

 lated agreeably to instructions in the eighth 

 and ninth years treatment. See the Plates. 



