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but if not, cut each shoot off to the lowest bud 

 upon it. Those spurs upon the main branch, as 

 Fig. 5. D, D, which were last year cut down 

 to two fruit buds, must now be cut down to 

 the lowest bud there is upon them, providing 

 that such bud is not more than one inch from 

 the origin of each spur, otherwise the spur 

 must be cut down to an embryo, as Fig. 5. 

 D, b. The remaining half of spurs which 

 were last year cut down to three lateral 

 spurs, as spur A, Fig. 5. a, a, must retain 

 all the fruit buds there are upon them; and 

 any shoots that may have pushed last sum- 

 mer, and were shortened, must be pruned 



down to one bud, or be cut entirely away, 



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according to previous instructions. 



Summer Pruning. — If shoots are produced 

 from the spurs cut down, let them be short- 

 ened back to three buds, as frequently as 

 required. 



Tenth Year.— Winter Pruning. — The spurs 

 upon the shoots trained in, as Fig. 5. A, B, 

 must be pruned so as to leave four fruit buds 

 upon each spur; and the shoots which pushed 

 from those spurs on the main branch, as 

 Fig. 5. D, D, and that were cut away last 

 winter pruning, and also were shortened 

 during summer, to three buds, will now gen- 

 erally be furnished with one or two fruitful 

 buds, as Fig. 6. C, c. If the buds be plump 

 and well matured, leave both, otherwise only 

 one. It will frequently happen that instead 



