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Summer Pruning, — This must be performed 

 agreeably to instructions given. 



Ninth Year, — Winter Pruning. — The spurs 

 No. 1. must now be cut down, if there be a 

 fruitful or growing bud situated near to the 

 origin of the spur, it must be cat down to 

 that, as Fig. 9. a, a fruitful bud, b, a growing 

 bud. The spurs No. 2. must be pruned to 

 three fruit buds, c, c, c, and the spurs No. 3. 

 to have four fruit buds, as d, d, d, d. 



It will be observed that the spur No. 1. 

 has now been cut down twice, the first time 

 in the sixth year, and the second in the 

 tenth, thus having borne fruit four years. 

 This would be the case with those spurs that 

 were only cut down to a fruitful bud, as 

 Fig. 5. a; but if cut down to a growing bud, 

 as b, it would only have borne fruit three 

 years. Also if the spur was cut entirely 

 down, as A, Fig. 5. it would have only borne 

 three years. In both the latter cases it 

 would be advisable to leave them with three 

 fruit buds each this winter, and cut them 



