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rected for a regular bearing tree. This addi- 

 tional quantity of shoots must not be trained 

 in any longer than is required to moderate 

 the vigour of the tree. 



Harrison's Heart Cherry tree, may be 

 treated in every respect as the May Duke, 

 only train in double the quantity of young 

 wood between the branches, and after a 

 shoot has borne fruit, two or three years at 

 most, cut it back to the lowest spur or bud 

 upon it, and a shoot which pushes from the 

 part so left must be trained in as before. A 

 spur may be very safely cut down in order 

 to obtain a new one, as the embryo at the 

 base of such a spur is certain to push. In 

 regulating the spurs situated upon the main 

 branches of the tree, let one half of those 

 that have borne fruit three years be pruned 

 so as only to leave one lateral spur upon 

 each, and two years afterwards let such 

 be cut down to the lowest bud or embryo 

 upon them ; and at the same time that 

 those are cut entirely down, let the remain- 

 ing half be cut to two lateral spurs each, 

 and then two years afterwards be cut down 

 to the lowest bud or embryo as done to the 

 others. All new shoots which push from 

 those spurs cut down, must be shortened 

 once or more in summer to four buds, and at 

 winter pruning to two buds each; those will 

 form the new fruitful spurs, and must be 



