THE PEACH. 



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this third pinching, they must be suppressed entirely. 

 After the fall of the leaves, and at the winter pruning, 

 these different shoots give place to a mass of branches, 

 shown by figs. 157 aaid 158. 



Fig. 156.— Irregtilar Shoots, pinched above the First Leaf. 



The different pinchings that we have described have 

 had the effect of gradually weakening the shoots, by 

 concentrating the action of the sap towards the exten- 

 sion shoot of the principal branch. Thus all the 



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