. A treatise on the culture and management of fruit trees . last win-ter pruning, Fig. 4. d, and have a fruitfulbud near to the bottom of each, as Fig. 5. a, 152 TREATMENT OF THE must now be shortened down to such bud asb, also, all shoots that have only growingbuds must be pruned down to one bud c. Itwill sometimes happen that a shoot may bedestitute of both fruitful and growing budsin a matured state, but there will always besmall eyes which are the embryos of futurebuds, such a shoot must be left about halfan inch long, as spur A, d; there will gene-rally be left upon it two eyes, and the u
. A treatise on the culture and management of fruit trees . last win-ter pruning, Fig. 4. d, and have a fruitfulbud near to the bottom of each, as Fig. 5. a, 152 TREATMENT OF THE must now be shortened down to such bud asb, also, all shoots that have only growingbuds must be pruned down to one bud c. Itwill sometimes happen that a shoot may bedestitute of both fruitful and growing budsin a matured state, but there will always besmall eyes which are the embryos of futurebuds, such a shoot must be left about halfan inch long, as spur A, d; there will gene-rally be left upon it two eyes, and the upper-most will always make a shoot, whilst thelower one will be formed into a fruitful bud. It occasionally happens that instead of ashoot arising after the spur No. 1. was cutdown, a fruitful bud will be produced, asspur B, e; such must be left entire, and itwill be productive next season, and mustafterwards be treated agreeably to directionslaid down, commencing at Fig. 3. and pro-ceeding in its future age and condition throughFigs. 4, 5, and 6. Fig. Such of the spurs No. 1. as were not en-tirely cut down, but to one fruitful bud as PEAR TREE. 153 Fig. 4. b, will generally now have twofruitful buds, if so, they must be allowedto keep them, cutting away any shoot thatmay have pushed and was shortened duringthe summer, down to such buds, as Fig; C, f, f. The future treatment of thesespurs must be attended to agreeably to theinstructions previously laid down. The re-mainder of the spurs No. 1. cut down lastwinter pruning to a growing bud, whichpushed a shoot and was shortened duringsummer, will generally have fruitful budsat the lower part of them, as Fig. 5. g, thespur must then be cut down to h. Thespurs No. 2. must have three fruitful budsleft, as Fig. 5. i, and the spurs No. 3. four,as k. Summer Pruning.—This must be regulatedas already directed.
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