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On the Treatment of P 'ear Trees. 



next. Though these expressions vary, there seems to be, in 

 fact, no material difference between them. For, supposing 

 the tree to be pruned in January or February, 1819, it will 

 be a year's space to the same period in 1820, and you may, 

 without taking any great latitude, consider that two springs, 

 viz. that of 1819 and 1820 are comprehended in it : the spur 

 would then show fruit in the spring 1821. This is nominally 

 the third spring, after pruning, as Mr. Harrison terms it ; 

 but in reality, only a year's space has elapsed between the 

 time of pruning, and the spring, when fruit is shown ; which 

 is the manner in which I have expressed it. 



Note by the Secretary. 

 A subsequent correspondence with Mr. Harrison, and 

 the inspection of some boughs, treated in the manner des- 

 cribed, has enabled me to explain more in detail the course 

 pursued by him in his method of pruning. The old spur 

 marked A, has at its base, close to the branch, the embryos 

 of future buds, at the lowest of which, marked D, this old 

 spur is cut off in February ; that embryo, in the end of the 

 ensuing season, becomes the bud marked C, (which state 

 seems to be that at which Dr. Noehden's period of com- 

 putation commences); during the subsequent year, this 

 young bud becomes a fruiting bud, and in the third year, 

 bears its produce, after which it is entirely cut off, in con- 

 formity with the system detailed. From the specimens of 

 branches sent up, it appears, in some cases, that two embryos 

 are allowed to form themselves into buds at the base of the 



