. The book of the garden. Gardening. HARRISON S HI ODE OF TRAIN71 NO. cause an embryo or more, as b 6, either to push the following summer, or to swell considerably, so as certainly to push after the old part of the spur has been pruned away. At the next win- ter-pruning it must be cut down to the lowest fruitful or growing bud, if there be such situ- ated about an inch from the branch which sup- ports the spur,otherwise the spur must be cut down to about half an inch from its origin. It will sometimes happen that when one of the spurs is cut down, three or four fruitful buds or shoots will ar
. The book of the garden. Gardening. HARRISON S HI ODE OF TRAIN71 NO. cause an embryo or more, as b 6, either to push the following summer, or to swell considerably, so as certainly to push after the old part of the spur has been pruned away. At the next win- ter-pruning it must be cut down to the lowest fruitful or growing bud, if there be such situ- ated about an inch from the branch which sup- ports the spur,otherwise the spur must be cut down to about half an inch from its origin. It will sometimes happen that when one of the spurs is cut down, three or four fruitful buds or shoots will arise around that part whicli is left, o&d d,k k. If they are fruitful buds, they must all be allowed to remain until the next winter-pruning, when they will generally be in the condition described by d k. In thinning them, all must be taken away except two, which two should be the strongest and best matured ; and if they be situated at the opposite side of the old spur, as c c, they must be preferred to those that are closer together, as k k; for when that is the case they interfere with and injure each other. When those spurs which remain come to have lateral spurs, as spur e, one of the main spurs must be cut away, g, the spur to the left. When shoots are produced instead of fruitful buds, as represented by d d, k k, they must be pruned down once, or more if required, during summer, and at the winter-pruning they must be regulated agreeably to the foregoing directions. It will frequently be the case that a fruitful bud will be formed at the lower part of such a shoot. If two shoots, situated in the manner of the buds c c, have each a fruitful bud at its base, both of them may be left, but other- wise only one. If none of the shoots should have a fruitful bud, then two of them, situated as before described, must be left, and be cut down to the lowest-growing bud upon them; and when a shoot pushes the next summer, it must be nailed down in the direction described by h, which
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