PEAR TREE. 



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July, for reasons assigned in the treatment 

 of the apple. 



The branches must not be shortened at all 

 either in summer or winter pruning of the 

 trees, until they have extended as far as the 

 wall will allow. 



Second Year. — Winter Pruning. — The up- 

 right shoot or head of the tree must now be 

 cut down to about ten inches from the upper- 

 most branch, as Fig. 1. a; b, b, the branches 

 which pushed at spring; c, c, those that were 

 caused to push by the stopping of the lead- 

 ing shoot at midsummer. 



The tree must be anointed with composition, 

 if required, agreeably to directions in that 

 Chapter. 



Summer Pruning. — When the shoots (upon 

 that part of the leading stem which were 

 produced after its being stopped last mid- 

 summer,) have attained two inches in length, 

 let the three uppermost be preserved, and all 

 others be rubbed off. Of those three retain- 



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