. A treatise on the culture and management of fruit trees . n them, be retained, and be shortenedback according to their strength, all othersbe cut clean away. If the shoot did not re-quire stopping in summer, let it be shortenedagreeably to its strength, whether furnishedwith blossom buds or not. If the retainingsuch a shoot as is here under consideration,would crowd those that are nearer the ex-tremities of the branches, let some of thembe pruned down, so that such a shoot mayderive every advantage from being alloweda suitable space, &c. In the pruning of a weakly tree whoseleading shoot was
. A treatise on the culture and management of fruit trees . n them, be retained, and be shortenedback according to their strength, all othersbe cut clean away. If the shoot did not re-quire stopping in summer, let it be shortenedagreeably to its strength, whether furnishedwith blossom buds or not. If the retainingsuch a shoot as is here under consideration,would crowd those that are nearer the ex-tremities of the branches, let some of thembe pruned down, so that such a shoot mayderive every advantage from being alloweda suitable space, &c. In the pruning of a weakly tree whoseleading shoot was directed to be stoppedduring the summer into shoots, as h, Fig. 4,always prune down to the lowest one, asFig. 5. f. All footstalks of fruit, as e, e, must be pru-ned clean away. In pruning the bearing wood always 240 TREATMENT OF THE cut to a growing bud. If there be a singlegrowing bud, as Fig: 6. a, situated at theplace desired to prune the shoot down to,always cut it off just above such a one, butsingle growing buds will not generally be Fig. 6. a. found so situated; when this is not the case,there will almost always be a growing budbetwixt two blossom buds, as b, b. Butalways cut down to a single growing budif properly situated, in preference to one thatis between twin blossoms, because the groAV-ing one thus situated will not always pushby reason of the bloom buds receiving sucha portion of nourishment as to render itdefective; but a single growing bud is cer-tain to push a shoot, unless an accidentprevent it, in which case, prune down toone of those, being careful to notice that thegrowing bud is a sound one. Growing budswhether situated singly or between twin blos-som buds, are longer and flatter than bloombuds. It will sometimes happen, that shortwood will be found to have only single and PEACH AND NECTARINE TREES. 241 double blooming buds upon them, with agrowing bud at the end, as c, but no inter-mediate growing ones. In this case if woodbe not wanted at that part, t
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