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TREATMENT OF THE 



zontal method, and afterwards change the 

 direction of the branches as required. 



Pear trees produce their fruit on spurs 

 and buds similar to Apples, but one mode 

 of pruning is not alike suitable to all kinds 

 of Pear trees. I shall therefore first treat of 

 those that require a method of pruning 

 nearly the same as that laid down for Apples. 



First Year. — Winter Pruning. — The head- 

 ing down the trees must be performed in 

 spring, and it must be cut so low as only to 

 leave three buds, (if the plant be vigorous 

 it may be cut to seven buds, and treated in 

 rubbing off buds, &c. as for Apples). 



Summer Pruning. — When the shoots have 

 pushed, let them be secured to the wall 

 before they get long, as they are very liable 

 to be broken off by wind or other accidents, 

 and such shoots cannot easily be supplied 

 with others well situated to fill up the va- 

 cancies. The uppermost shoot must be 

 trained straight up the wall, and the re- 

 maining two, one on each side the bole of 

 the tree. When the upright shoot has 

 advanced about fourteen or sixteen inches, 

 let the top be pinched off so as to leave it 

 ten inches long From the top of this short- 

 ened shoot three or four shoots srenerallv 



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push, let the uppermost be trained straight 

 up the wall, the next two one on each side. 

 This stopping of the shoot must not be done 

 later than the latter end of June, or early in 



