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made to slope in the same direction as that 

 in which the bud grows. Those shoots which 

 were shortened during the last summer to 

 three buds as directed in order to form them 

 into spurs, will now very probably be furnish- 

 ed with one, two, or three fruitful buds each. 

 If there be three, prune the shoot back to two, 

 as f. If there be two and the lowest be a grow- 

 ing bud, as g, prune it to one fruitful bud, as h. 

 If there be only one, and it be lowest, as i, 

 cut it down to that; but if it be the upper- 

 most, as k, let the shoot remain its entire 

 length, and the second bud, 1, will push a 

 shoot next year, whilst the lowest, m, will 

 form a fruitful bud; and at the following 

 winter pruning it must be cut off just above 

 the bud m. The regulating of these spurs 



Fig. 3. 



in future, must be directed to obtain and 

 keep them well furnished with fruitful buds. 

 Such buds will be produced at the lower 

 part of those shoots that afterwards push 

 and are shortened to three or four buds in 



