no 



thinning at the winter pruning, and partly by the 

 process of disbudding in summer. Let the accom- 

 panying wood-cut represent part of a bearing-shoot ; 

 the lowest bud is left because it is the lowest, and is, 

 therefore, most eligible for training in" daring the 

 season, in order to furnish, next spring, a similar 

 bearing-shoot to that now represented, which will be 

 cut back to the said lowest shoot. The second bud 

 from the base is also left, for the sake of a fruit-blos- 

 som which is connected with it. The shoots which 

 were pushing at a, 5, and c, fig. 18, are removed, or 

 disbudded. In removing the buds, care should be 

 taken not to injure the bark of the shoot. The buds, 

 a, 5, c, ought not to be all disbudded at the same 

 time ; b, the fore-right one, should be first removed, 

 and the others successively, at intervals of several days, 

 in order not to check the circulation of sap by a too 

 great privation of foliage at once. The terminal shoot 

 is left because there is a blossom at its base. As was 

 above observed, the lowest shoots must be preserved 

 throughout the summer ; the other two having fruit 

 at their base may be shortened back to about three 

 inches after their leaves have attained the full size, 

 and the base of the shoots has acquired some degree 

 of firmness. The shoots of peach trees that have been 

 neglected may be reduced to order without any material 

 injury, if the removal of superfluous shoots is thus 

 made by little at a time. {Gard, Chron. 1841, 380.) 



