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TREATMENT OF THE 



down the next; unless they should have 

 grown vigorous and long, when they would 

 require it, as directed for those which were 

 cut down to a fruitful bud. 



This regular system of cutting down and 

 treating the spurs, must be practised upon 

 all other spurs, as is here directed. Thus 

 the next year the spur No. 3. must be cut 

 down as in Fig. 6. f, and then the second 

 year from this time the spurs No. 2. as Fig. 

 7. b; and in the fourth year from the present 

 period, the spur No. 1. cut down as Fig. 5. 

 a, will require to be cut down again. By 

 pursuing this system of pruning, the spurs 

 will always be at a proper distance from 

 each other, so that a suitable portion of sun 

 and air is admitted to them, and the spurs 

 are always kept supplied with young healthy 

 wood, and fruitful buds. This renewal of 

 spurs may be practised five or six times, and 

 frequently many times more than that num- 

 ber, and the tree will be well supplied with 

 young fruitful spurs. And thus those long, 

 injurious, straggling spurs which are so 

 generally to be seen, and which so disfigure 

 the tree, are avoided. Although the plan 

 here laid down may appear tedious, yet 

 when it is pursued, it will not be so, and 

 will abundantly compensate for all the trou- 

 ble and attention required. 



After a series of years it will be desirable 

 to have a new set of branches to the tree, 



