. A treatise on the culture and management of fruit trees . During the following summer another shootmust be trained up from the bottom of eachof the leading branches, and it must be stop-ped as done to the one trained from thebottom last year This shoot must be trainedup at the opposite side of the branch fromthe other. The second shoot in length mustbe permitted to grow about six feet and thenbe stopped, by cutting off one foot from theend, at which length it must be kept, andthe leading shoot be stopped at the top ofthe wall. Fifth Year.—Winter Pruning.—The lead-ing shoots must be cut off a
. A treatise on the culture and management of fruit trees . During the following summer another shootmust be trained up from the bottom of eachof the leading branches, and it must be stop-ped as done to the one trained from thebottom last year This shoot must be trainedup at the opposite side of the branch fromthe other. The second shoot in length mustbe permitted to grow about six feet and thenbe stopped, by cutting off one foot from theend, at which length it must be kept, andthe leading shoot be stopped at the top ofthe wall. Fifth Year.—Winter Pruning.—The lead-ing shoots must be cut off at twelve inches pp 290 TREATMENT OF THE from the top of the wall, as Fig. 2. a, a. Thesecond shoots opposite to where the leadingones were cut last winter pruning, as b, b, and. the lowest shoots at four feet, as c, c. All thelateral shoots that have borne fruit, must becut entirely away. During the ensuingsummer another shoot must be trained upfrom the bottom of each branch, at the op-posite side to the one trained up last sum-mer. The other shoots must be regulatedas already directed. Sixth Year.—Winter Pruning. All the leading shoots, as Fig. 3. a, a, must now becut entirely away to the origin of the nextshoot in length, as b, b; and the next shootin length, as c, must now be pruned off onefoot from the top of the wall. The othershoots to be cut down according to previousinstruction. VINE. 291 All lateral shoots which bore fruit to becut clean away. The system of management now detailedmust be practised every future year, byshortening the shoots, cutting away entirelythe lateral ones that bore last season, alsoin training up young ones from the bottomof the branches every year; and it may bepursued for a great many years withoutexhausting the Vines. The
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