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any short spurs, i, formed upon the two or three 

 year's old wood which is retained, let such 

 be preserved as they will be productive the 

 following year. 



It will occasionally happen that a new 

 shoot will have pushed from the three, four, 

 or more year's old wood, as k, such will be 

 produced from a spur, as i, or otherwise. If 

 it pushed vigorously last summer and was 

 stopped as directed in order to cause it to 

 produce kind wood, let a suitable portion of 

 its lateral shoots which have bloom buds 

 upon them, be retained, and be shortened 

 back according to their strength, all others 

 be cut clean away. If the shoot did not re- 

 quire stopping in summer, let it be shortened 

 agreeably to its strength, whether furnished 

 with blossom buds or not. If the retaining 

 such a shoot as is here under consideration, 

 would crowd those that are nearer the ex- 

 tremities of the branches, let some of them 

 be pruned down, so that such a shoot may 

 derive every advantage from being allowed 

 a suitable space, &c. 



In the pruning of a weakly tree whose 

 leading shoot was directed to be stopped 

 during the summer into shoots, as h, Fig. 4, 

 always prune down to the lowest one, as 

 Fig. 5. f. 



All footstalks of fruit, as e, e, must be pru- 

 ned clean away. 



In pruning the bearing wood always 



