. A treatise on the culture and management of fruit trees . as frequently as required. Theshortening of such shoots will generallycause them to form a fruitful bud or morenear to their origin, as Fig. 2. Third Year. II inter Pruning.—At this period a tree that has been properly managedin every respect as directed, will generallybe supplied with a few fruitful buds. Myfuture observations will treat on those spurswhich are upon that part of the branch madethe first year after the tree was same practice is applicable to all spursupon any other part of the tree, at a similarage and con
. A treatise on the culture and management of fruit trees . as frequently as required. Theshortening of such shoots will generallycause them to form a fruitful bud or morenear to their origin, as Fig. 2. Third Year. II inter Pruning.—At this period a tree that has been properly managedin every respect as directed, will generallybe supplied with a few fruitful buds. Myfuture observations will treat on those spurswhich are upon that part of the branch madethe first year after the tree was same practice is applicable to all spursupon any other part of the tree, at a similarage and condition. Those buds upon the first years woodwhich pushed into shoots, and were shortenedduring last summer, must now be pruneddown so as to leave two fruit buds, as Fig,2. a, a. If there be not a growing budsituated near to the bottom, there is always PLUM TREE. 173 an eye or embryo of a future bud, and inthat case the shoot must be cut off just aboveit, as at c. All the natural fruit buds, asFig. 2. d, d, will be productive the ensuing-summer. Fig. Summer Pruning.—All shoots which pushupon those spurs that bear fruit, must beshortened down to three or four eyes, whichwill generally be to leave them about oneinch and a half long; they must be thus cutdown, when they have pushed about eightinches. If they require shortening again, itmuse be done as before. It will frequentlyhappen that there will not be any shootsproduced upon some of those spurs which areproductive, but fruitful buds will be formedinstead of them, as Fig, 3. f, f. All shootswhich are produced in future upon any partof the tree, may, during the summer beshortened agreeably to instructions given. Fourth Year.—Winter Pruning.—Upon theshoots which were produced on those spurs,that bore fruit last year, and were shortenedonce or more as directed, during summer, 174 TREATMENT OF THE there will generally be a fruitful bud or moreformed at the lower part of them, as Fig. , a; such fruitful buds must be r
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