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Eleventh Year. Winter Pruning. — The 



spurs No. L must retain four fruitful buds, 

 as Fig. 8. a, a. The spurs No. 2. must be 

 regulated agreeably to directions given for 

 the spurs No. 1. when at a similar condition. 

 See Fig. 5. And the spurs No. 3. must be 

 cut down to the lowest fruitful or growing 

 bud, or entirely away if required. ( See Fig. 

 4. spurs No. 1. or Fig. 6. spurs No. 2. where 

 instructions are given for cutting away spurs.) 



Fig. 8. 



Summer Pruning. — This must be performed 

 agreeably to the instructions given in the pre- 

 vious year's treatment. 



Twelfth Year. — If inter Pruning. — The spurs 

 No. 1. must now be cut down to two fruitful 

 buds, as Fig. 9. a, a, which will cause an em- 

 bryo or more, as Fig. 9. b, b, either to push 

 the following summer, or to swell consider- 

 ably, so as certainly to push after the old 

 part of the spur has been pruned away. At 

 the next winter pruning it must be cut down 

 to the lowest fruitful or growing bud, if there 

 be such situated about an inch from the 

 branch which supports the spur; otherwise 



