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ing to the green shoot." Occasionally, a very promis- 

 ing shoot which has already fruited is allowed to remain. 

 The replacing shoot is cut back to its lowest eye ; or, 

 if it is vigorous, and there is room, it is made in the 

 usual way to produce a substitute. Tn either case, a 

 new replacing shoot is obtained, to which the whole 

 is invariably shortened at the end of the second 

 year. The branch thus treated is styled the reserve 

 branch. 



It is to be remarked, that the replacing shoot, and 

 the branch of reserve, form a part of the Montreuil 

 system of pruning for fruit, but less attention seems 

 to be bestowed upon them, and the raprochement or 

 cutting back is not so rigorously performed, for we 

 find the fruit-branches passing into subordinate mem- 

 bers, while, in the form we have just now described, 

 they remain single and undivided. It is obvious that 

 these operations might be applied to any system of 

 training, even by those who would hesitate to adopt 

 one of the French forms in all its details. It is but 

 justice to observe, that a near approach to these ope- 

 rations has been made by Harrison, in his excellent 

 directions in this department of the culture of peaches. 



3. There is yet another variety of the Montreuil 

 form, denominated a la Sieulle, The tree is likewise 

 formed upon two mother branches, which, being se- 

 lected in the first summer, are permanently fixed at 

 the inclination of from 25 to 30 degs., leaving, con- 



