. A treatise on the culture and management of fruit trees . erally 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 w
. A treatise on the culture and management of fruit trees . erally 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 retained,and the shoot be pruned off at b. In ad-dition to those fruit buds, there will fre-quently be several more proceeding fromthe side of the spur, as c, c; all such mustbe left. Fig. If a spur be destitute of fruitful buds atthe lower part of a shoot, and instead ofhaving them so situated, should have onlyone or two at the upper part of a shoot whichwas shortened last summer, as d, d, theshoot must be cut off just above the upper-most fruitful bud, as e. Those spurs whichdid not produce any shoots, as Fig. 3. f, f,must retain all the fruitful buds there areupon them. It will generally happen thatthere will now be fruitful buds formed fromthe embryos to which some of the shootswere cut down at the last winter pruning,as Fig. 2. c, they must be left entire. Suchof the shoots as were cut down to a growing PLUM TREE. 175 bud last winter pruning, as Fig. 2. b, andhave now a fruitful bud or more upon them,must be cut off just above such buds, as atFig. 3. g, but if they should still be destituteof a fruitful bud each, let them be cut downto the lowest bud or embryo there may beupon them, as h. If a shoot procee
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