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did not push to shoots; all such are left entire (e). 

 They are of a reddish colour, and are easily distin- 

 guished from growing buds, which are considerably 

 less, and all of a dark colour. 



Summer Pruning. — This summer the fruitful buds 

 are productive. When the fruit has swelled a little, 

 a shoot generally proceeds from the stem of the spur 

 (which it may now be called), just underneath the 

 fruit : such are allowed to grow eight or ten inches 

 long, and are then shortened back to two inches, or 

 so as to leave three eyes upon each (fig. 3, A a). By 

 shortening the shoot strength is thrown into the fruit, 



Fig. 3. 



and, during the summer, two or more fruit buds are 

 generally produced at the bottom of the shoot thus 

 cnt down (fig. 3, b b), or, otherwise, from the lower 

 part of the spur (fig. 3, c). It sometimes occurs 

 that, when the tree is very vigorous, some of the buds 

 (fig. 3, b b) will push into shoots, or occasionally into 

 bloom, during the latter end of summer. If shoots, 



