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"Now look here, Grant Here's this plum-tree, and if you look at it you

will see that there are two kinds of wood in it"

"Two kinds of wood, sir?"

"Yes Can't you tell the difference?"

"No, sir; only that so, and soy"

"Exactly: that is the difference, my lad Well, can you see any more

difference in the shoots?"

I looked for so and sy ones are all over sharp points"

"Then as there is too much wood there, which had we better cut out

What should you do?"

"Cut out the scrubby little twigs, and nail up these nice long shoots"

"That's the way, Grant! Now you'll knowafter this

than Shock has learned in two years Look here, my lad; you've fallen

into everybody'sshoots

will grow into big branches; those little tith the points, as you

call them, are fruit spurs, covered with blossom buds If I cut theer and a roood, but fruit Look here"