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If after such treatment fruit buds are not produced 

 from the origin of the shoot, nail the shoot to the 

 wall parallel with the branch, which is uniformly suc- 

 cessful in producing them. 



Third Year. — Winter Pruning. — Such of the buds 

 as produced wood shoots the last year, and were 

 shortened during summer as described, are now short- 

 ened more. It frequently happens that a fruitful 

 bud, or in some instances two, will have been formed 

 at the lower part of the shoot (fig. 2, a a) ; such 

 shoots are now cut off about a quarter of an inch 

 above the uppermost of the fruitful buds (b) ; but 

 (as is sometimes the case) if there have not been fruit- 

 ful buds produced, there will be growing buds, and then 

 the shoots are cut down so as to leave one bud (fig. 

 2, c). On some occasions the growing buds and fruit- 



Fig. 2. 



ful buds will appear but very indistinctly, and in an 

 embryo state ; when this is the case the shoots are 

 cut down so as to leave two of those embryo buds (dd). 

 There are generally some natural fruit buds which 



