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appearance here shown, it would be well to cut it 

 in very short, and thus divide it. To cut it long 

 so as to bear is 5 indeed, long pruning, and cannot 

 be recommended here. As an extension it is, 

 however, excellent. 



4. The Gross Shoot (fig. 4), Gourmand, Dubreuil. 

 —This is a dangerous class, and it should never 

 be permitted to appear except as an extension. It 

 is represented of the ordinary thickness, but fre- 

 quently becomes very much stronger. From it 

 are developed laterals of summer growth, which 

 are called " anticipes" (literally, premature shoots) 

 by the French. These summer laterals are the 

 bugbear of very close primers, for on their careful 

 management or otherwise depends the character 

 of their work. We notice that the leaf-buds a are 

 generally not so prominent as in class 1 ; and on 

 the laterals, in the case of that on the right, the 

 leaf-buds are double, and well placed at the inser- 

 tion of the lateral on the parent shoot, and therefore 

 no blank space will appear when these laterals are 

 transformed into fruit-bearers. In the case of -the 

 left-hand lateral, however, these two leaf-buds are 

 suspiciously distant, and the dormant bud visible 

 at the base cannot be depended on, and if not 

 developed during the ensuing season, probably 

 never will be. This is a peculiarity of the Peach, 

 therefore the right-hand lateral is of much greater 



