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have been furnished bv Mr. Bliss and Mr. Green- 

 shields. The following are Mr. BHss's directions : — 

 Suppose your maiden tree has only one or two 

 shoots, it is then necessary to cut them down to four 

 or five buds, to get a sufficiency of wood to form the 

 bottom of the tree. The following season leave about 

 five of the most regular shoots, which will be quite 

 sufficient, or even four, for they are none the better 

 for being crowded with limbs from the stem. Do not 

 leave more than six shoots at the outside, but what 

 you take out, take out clean. The tree having stood 

 two yeais without being headed down, it will throw 

 out some young side shoots towards the top of the 

 original shoots ; these should be cut off within two 

 buds of the bottom, allowing the original shoots to 

 grow straight up, till they get to the height you wish 

 them, say five or six feet or higher ; then cut their 

 tops off and keep all the young shoots spurred in 

 every year to about two buds, nearly the same as you 

 would a red currant tree ; by this means it will throw 

 all those spurs into bloom buds. And by pruning 

 away all that superfluous wood, the fruit receives the 

 whole strength and nourishment of the tree ; and be- 

 sides, by this method you not only throw your trees 

 into bearing and produce more fruit, but they have 

 the advantage of the sun. When the trees begin to 

 get old, you may occasionally leave a clean young 

 shoot, and the following year remove an old one, and 



