THE PEACH. 



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than the summit. The pinching, nailing up, removal 

 of superfluous fruit and leaves, are all executed as 

 during the preceding summer. 



Fourth Year. — At the spring of the fourth year the 

 branches that have been treated as fig. 144, and which 

 bave fructified during the summer, are now grown as 



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Fig. 148.— Renewal of Peach Branch. Fig. 149.— Renewal of Peach Branch. 



fig. 147. The stock-branch which bears the old fruit- 

 branch D is cut at A ; the brancb F at F to form the 

 replacer ; the branch C at C for the new fruit-branch. 

 This operation gives the same result at spring as before 

 described. The same pruning must be applied from 

 year to year. The other operations, both for summer 

 and winter are the same as for the third year. 



It frequently happens that the stock-branches of 

 about three or four years' growth develop, towards 

 their base, one or more wood-buds (A, fig. 148). We 



