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ON THE CULTURE OF 



be trained outwards, under the corners till 

 they reach within a foot of the outer edge of the 

 bed, and then stopped. After this they will again 

 break, and throw out lateral shoots, which will 

 soon extend, as they should be permitted to do, 

 to the outside of the bed, and will produce fruit 

 in abundance. After a while, however, these 

 laterals will multiply so rapidly, that they 

 must be thinned ; but it is better never to allow 

 them to become thick, from daily attention and 

 constant stopping. This operation ought, inva- 

 riably, to be performed with the finger and 

 thumb ; because w 7 hen cut with an instrument 

 the wound does not heal, and the lateral gene- 

 rally dies back to the next joint ; which is not 

 the case when the shoots are pruned or stopped 

 by hand* 



When the laterals are thinned, three or 

 four should be left on each of the four leading 

 shoots adverted to, and the others should be 

 taken off close to the main stem out of which 

 they grow; you will then have tw r elve or sixteen 



