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produced upon those spurs which are now 

 productive, as Fig. 2. d, they must be cut 

 down to four eyes, as e. This practice of 

 summer pruning must be attended to in fu- 

 ture, to all similar shoots produced in any 

 part of the tree. 



Fourth Year. — Winter Pruning. — All shoots 

 that were produced last summer and cut 

 down to four eyes, must now be pruned 

 down to two buds, Fig. 3. c, c. It will some- 

 times happen that a shoot will have pushed 

 from a spur that bore fruit last summer, as 

 h, A, and that only one fruitful bud is formed 

 upon that part of the shoot which was left, 

 as b, the other buds being growing ones, 

 as d. In that case cut the spur down to e; 

 this will generally cause a shoot to push, or 

 a fruitful bud to be formed from an embryo 



Fig- 3- 



or bud. This attention to procure and re- 

 tain a shoot or fruitful bud near to the origin 

 of a spur, is particularly required in the May 

 Duke Cherry, as the embryos of buds are 

 not so rank, neither so certain to be produced, 



c c 



