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disbudding, covering bare spaces on the stem, &c., scattered 

 througbont this chapter, fully explain the regular and close-; 

 pruning French system — any garden wall with a Peach tree 

 will illustrate our own. 



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Fig.257shows a shootthaton its first pruning was cutback to 

 four or five inches^ bore two good fruit, and furnished four shoots. 



