THE PEAR. 



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equal degree of vigour. If one of them lias grown too 

 long, as shown A (fig. 39), its vegetation must be 

 checked by pinching, that is, by taking off about two- 



Fig. 38.— Pyramidal Pear. * Fig. 39.— Stem of Pyramidal Pear. 



Second Pruning. Pinching. 



thirds of an inch from the extremity with the finger 

 nails. 



Second Pruning. — By spring of the following year 

 the young trees present the appearance of fig. 38. The 

 second pruning is to determine the formation of a new 



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