. A treatise on the culture and management of fruit trees . bud does not swell, allthe shoots must be cut clean away, to onewhich may be treated in shortening as di-rected. The latter practice will generallybe found necessary, and also be most advan-tageous; as a greater portion of sun and airis admitted to the buds, which will be consi-derably strengthened and forwarded to amature state. Third Year.—Winter Pruning,—In pruning 128 TREATMENT OF THE the tree at this time, such of the buds as raninto wood shoots the last year, and wereshortened during summer agreeably to in-structions given, must
. A treatise on the culture and management of fruit trees . bud does not swell, allthe shoots must be cut clean away, to onewhich may be treated in shortening as di-rected. The latter practice will generallybe found necessary, and also be most advan-tageous; as a greater portion of sun and airis admitted to the buds, which will be consi-derably strengthened and forwarded to amature state. Third Year.—Winter Pruning,—In pruning 128 TREATMENT OF THE the tree at this time, such of the buds as raninto wood shoots the last year, and wereshortened during summer agreeably to in-structions given, must now be shortenedmore. It frequently happens that a fruitfulbud, or in some instances two, will havebeen formed at the lower part of the shootduring the last summer, as Fig. 2. a, a; suchshoots must now be cut off about a quarterof an inch above the uppermost of thosefruitful buds, as b; but as sometimes is thecase, if there have not been fruitful budsproduced, there will be growing buds, andthen the shoot must be cut down so as toleave one bud, as On some occasions the growing buds willappear but very indistinctly, and are in anembryo state, yet by close observation theywill be easily perceptible. When this is thecase, the shoot must be cut down so as toleave two of those embryo buds, as d, d;this will generally be, to leave it abouthalf an inch in length. Upon that part ofthe branch made the first year after plant-ing of the tree, there will generally be some APPLE TREE. 129 natural fruit buds which did not push toshoots, all such must be left entire, as e;they are from half an inch to an inch inlength, strong and robust, the end of thebuds are of a reddish colour, and is very dis-tinguishable from growing buds, which areconsiderably less and all of a dark colour. Summer Pruning.—-This summer, the fruit-ful buds will be productive, when the fruithas swelled a little, a shoot will generallyproceed from the stem of the spur (which itmay now be so called) just undernea
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