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rank upon the branches, two or three of them 

 may be cut down to the lowest bud upon 

 them, as D, a; but if there be a good em- 

 bryo, cut down to that, as 1>. This method 

 of cutting in such spurs to two or three late- 

 ral ones, in order to bring them to as close 

 contact with the wall as possible; also to cut 

 two or three entirely away to one bud, or to 

 a good embryo when a spur is supplied with 

 them near to its origin, as D, a, b, must 

 always be attended to : but never cut a spur 

 entirely down except it be a very young 

 one, unless there be a bud or plump embryo 

 to prune to, for shoots are not so readily and 

 abundantly obtained from the May Duke 

 Cherry, as from the Apple, Pear, and Plum. 

 After a new spur obtained by cutting down 

 as directed to a bud or embryo, has borne 

 fruit five years, it may then be cut down 

 again. 



Summer 'Pruning. — Those shoots that push 

 from the spurs cut down, as B, C, mast be 

 regularly trained in, and all other shoots be 

 attended to as already directed. 



Ninth Year. — The shoots that were trained 

 in last summer, must remain their entire 

 length until they have extended three feet, 

 when they must be stopped, as they will 

 then have reached up to the next shoot nail- 

 ed in at the same side of the branch. They 

 must afterwards be reserved until the spurs 

 upon that part of the shoot produced the 



