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EXPLANATION OF PLATE 2. 



An old hollow Green Gage Plum-Tree the second year 

 after heading down. This tree was very much deca^^ed, hav- 

 ing only a few inches of sound bark ; many of the roots, being 

 also rotten and decayed, were cut off, and an incision made at 

 a, which produced a fresh root. 



b. The first heading, close to a bud. 



c, c. The new wood and bark growing over the hollow 

 part d, which is covered with the composition. 



e, ^c. Where the second year's heading was per-* 

 formed. 



f^f. Where the fore-right shoots are cut off during the 

 winter or spring pruning. 



S-> ^» '^^'^^ irmt buds for next year, as they appear 

 after the fore-right shoots are cut off, as at /, f^. 



Fig. 2. 



A branch on a larger scale, to shew the manner of cutting 

 those fore-right shoots which are full of fruit buds. This 

 should be done at /z, /z, but not till the fruit is set ; they after- 

 wards form into dugs as below, in the same figure. 



Fig. 3. 



An old branch pruned in the common way, covered over 

 with canker, and producing only small weak shoots, leaving 

 the wall mostly naked. 



* Owing to an error of the engraver, the f,f are omitted. They should 

 be at the forks in the two lower branches. The g which is furthest to the left 

 hand should not be there at all. Where the fork is, the shoot is cut off, which 

 brings out the little new shoot. The long shoot is left in the plate to show 

 »'hat it was before it was cut off. 



