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inches farther on the branch, and on the 

 opposite side of it, let another be nailed in 

 as B. If that part of the branch made the 

 first year after planting of the tree, should 

 extend twelve inches farther still, another 

 shoot must be nailed in at that distance 

 from the second, but on the same side of the 

 branch as the first, as C. This practice of 

 nailing in spurs, must be pursued in every 

 other part of the tree when they are at a 

 similar age and condition. 



Summer Pruning. — Upon the spurs nailed 

 in last winter pruning, Fig. 5. A, B, C, there 

 will be a shoot produced from each this sum- 

 mer; such shoots must be trained in betwixt 



Fig. 6. 



the branches, at the distance of four inches 

 from the branch from which they proceed. 

 If more than one shoot pushes from a spur 

 thus trained in, all above that number must 

 be shortened at the end of June, or early in 

 July, to about an inch and a half, and this 

 must be repeated, if required, as directed for 



