The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . on as four leaves are formed, pinch back to two leaves, andafterwards to one leaf. All this will be readily understoodafter a seasons practice. Of course those natural shootswhich make their terminal buds—and are called by the French rameaux a fruit bouquets, because they appear like a smallnosegay,—should not be touched wherever they appear. 166 THE MAGAZINE OF HOKTICULTURE. They will soon be known, and generally spring from thebases of the spurs. See fig. 5, of fruit-spurs on the peach,where
The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . on as four leaves are formed, pinch back to two leaves, andafterwards to one leaf. All this will be readily understoodafter a seasons practice. Of course those natural shootswhich make their terminal buds—and are called by the French rameaux a fruit bouquets, because they appear like a smallnosegay,—should not be touched wherever they appear. 166 THE MAGAZINE OF HOKTICULTURE. They will soon be known, and generally spring from thebases of the spurs. See fig. 5, of fruit-spurs on the peach,where it is seen springing from the base of the spur, and ismarked E. The present winters pruning of these two shootsnow requires notice. Taking figs. S-and 6 of peach spurs,—A indicates the original spur ; B the right shoot; C the leftshoot; D the right shoot which has developed another one,and E the natural fruit-spur. Fig. 5.—Here, on the spur A, the right shoot has grownby successive starts (as seen by the divisions) upwards. Thelittle elbow above B is that part of the shoot which was left. 6. FRUIT-SPURS ON THE PEACH—ALTERNATE APPEARANCE. beyond the last hud pinched down to, and often dries up rap-idly. Two triple buds appear on the second growth, whichare to be carefully left. They will be found in fig. 6, as devel-oped into two new shoots marked there B and D. But atpresent the shoot is to be cut back to them, and failing them,to two leaf-buds for wood shoots. Never cut, by any means,to single flower-buds, because tliere should always be a Icof-bud at the extremity of every part, no matter where or ofwhat strength. In a triple bud tlie central one is a leaf-bud,and the other two (lower-buds, and thus it unites every neces-sary qualification. The left shoot in fig. 5 is also seen. The second growth APRIL. 167 has, or may not have, its two triple buds; most likely it will,because that is the place to look for them, and pinching-inhelps miich to this impo
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