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they are allowed to grow, and are then shortened, as 

 described for similar shoots ; but when bloom is 

 produced, it is immediately cut off close under the 

 blossom. The shoots (fig. 2, c) produced after the 

 third year's winter pruning are allowed to grow, and 

 are then shortened, as already directed for similar 

 shoots. (See Second Tea?'' s Summer Priming). The 

 shoots which were pruned as directed last winter, and 

 had embryo buds (fig. 2, d d) during this summer, 

 generally have a fruit bud, and in some cases two, 

 formed at their bases. The treatment of all shoots 

 produced upon any of the spurs in future is agree- 

 ably to the previous instructions given. Always thin 

 the fruit, and where two are situated together, take 

 one away ; this is to be done when you perceive them 

 begin to flesh. 



Fourth Year. — Winter Pruning. — The spurs (fig. 

 3, A B) which were productive last summer, and 

 upon which a shoot was made and shortened (fig. 3, 

 a, spur A), are now regulated in the following manner : 

 — If there be two good fruit buds formed upon the 

 stem of the spur (fig. 3, d d, spur B), all that part of 

 it above such buds is cut away, about a quarter of an 

 inch above the uppermost (as at c) ; but if there is 

 only one good fruit bud upon the stem, and one 

 upon the shoot which was cut in during the summer 

 (as at a, spur A), then it is pruned off (as at spur C, 

 e e) } so that two buds only remain (as //). When 



