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FRUIT TREES. 



which have fructified, may produce new flower-buds 

 two or three years afterwards, the fruit-spur having 

 ramified, as shown at fig. 74. So also will each of the 

 small fruit-spurs situated upon the branches of which 



Fig. 72.— Two Years' Branch after partial Fig. 73.— Two Years' Branch after 

 Fracture, bearing Fruit-Spurs. double Fracture, bearing Fruit-Spurs. 



we have spoken above. In six years after their first 

 fructification, each of these fruit-spurs will be con- 

 stituted as shown at fig. 75. If the fruit-spurs have 

 not been injured during their development, and the 

 tree is sufficiently vigorous, they will, after a certain 

 time, present the appearance of fig. 76. The question 

 now arises, ought we to allow them to continue to 

 increase in this manner to an indefinite extent ? If so, 

 the fruits will soon grow at too great a distance from 



