THE PEAR. 



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During the summer all the buds may be allowed to 

 develop themselves freely, preserv- 

 ing the pre-eminence to the ter- 

 minal shoot. At the second 

 priming, the new extension is 

 treated in the same manner; the 

 most vigorous wood-branches of 

 the new extension developed a 

 little below the point of attach- 

 ment are cut close off ; the more 

 feeble branches, and the twigs 

 below them, are broken above a 

 well-formed bud three inches from 

 their spring. Finally, the twigs 

 at the base are left entire. During 

 the summer they must be left to 

 grow without interference, except 

 to protect the terminal shoot. 



At the third pruning the small 

 twigs that have grown upon the 

 lower part of the boughs cut 

 during the preceding year must 

 be broken, if more vigorous than 

 twigs ; the same must be done to 

 all the other shoots that are too 

 vigorously developed below this 

 point. The new ramifications 

 growing upon the extension pruned 

 the preceding year must be treated 

 the same as the former ones, and 

 so on year after year. The re- Fig. 79.— Pear trained as 



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