. A treatise on the culture and management of fruit trees . away, with the exception of onethat is situated near to the origin of thespur, as e, when that bud, and the twro next 134 TREATMENT OF THE should only be left. It will sometimes hap-pen, that after a tree has borne fruit a yearor two, the shoots that push at the ends ofthe branches, will have a few fruitful buds,as Fig. 2. e, formed upon them the firstsummer; such buds must remain, as theywill be productive the season following. Summer Pruning.—Attention must be paidto this, in shortening the shoots, or thinningthem away, agreeably to
. A treatise on the culture and management of fruit trees . away, with the exception of onethat is situated near to the origin of thespur, as e, when that bud, and the twro next 134 TREATMENT OF THE should only be left. It will sometimes hap-pen, that after a tree has borne fruit a yearor two, the shoots that push at the ends ofthe branches, will have a few fruitful buds,as Fig. 2. e, formed upon them the firstsummer; such buds must remain, as theywill be productive the season following. Summer Pruning.—Attention must be paidto this, in shortening the shoots, or thinningthem away, agreeably to the instructionsalready given. Sixth Year.—-Winter Pruning.—In order toconvey a correct method of the treatment ofthe spurs at this time, it will be necessaryto point them out by numbers, as one, two,and three. The enumeration will proceedfrom the bole of the tree along the branch,as far as the spurs extend upon each sepa-rate years wood; after these spurs are thusnumbered, I begin again, and proceed withNo. 1. &c. agreeably to Fig. 5. Fig. Every spur No. 1. on the first years wood, APPLE TREE. 135 must now be cut down to the lowest budthere is upon it, whether it be a fruitful bud,as a, or a growing bud, as b. Every spurNo. 2. to have three fruit buds, as c, c, c;and every spur, No. 3, to have four fruitbuds, as d, d, d, d. When a spur, No. 1. is destitute of eithera fruitful or growing bud towards the lowerpart of it, such a spur must be cut down solow, as only to leave about half an inch re-maining, as Fig. 5. A, there is generally aneye or embryo of a bud situate near the ori-gin of the spur, as a, spur A; from this ashoot or a fruitful bud will be produced theensuing summer, and thus a supply will beobtained for that cut away. Summer Pruning.—All shoots must beshortened during summer, agreeably to theinstructions laid down. Particular care mustbe paid to the spurs No. 1. as a shoot or fruit-ful bud will generally be produced nearer tothe base of the spur, than
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