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branches. The trees are vigorous and 

 grow rapidly, but are generally short- 

 lived. The young trees respond to 

 pruning and cover the wounds well, 

 but the old trees do not. It is generally 

 better to grow a new orchard than to 

 attempt to rejuvenate an old one. 



The American and European varieties 

 of plums require very little pruning. 

 The dead branches should be cut out 

 and the strongest shoots cut back. The 

 top is often thinned out like peach 

 trees. The Japanese plum grows and 

 fruits very much like apricots and 

 should be pruned in about the same 

 way. 



The prune trees belong to the Euro- 

 pean plum class, and while they re- 

 quire comparatively little pruning, that 

 pruning should be regularly done, and 

 should be severe enough to prevent 

 the formation of long and drooping 

 branches. The general growth of the 

 tree should be in an upward direction, 

 and should be of stocky, vigorous wood. 

 This tree has a good ability to renew its 

 top with watersprouts when severely 

 cut back, and good progress will be 

 made if such work is done. This tree is 

 able to care for its wounds in good 

 shape, and if the wounds are reason- 

 ably cared for it is very seldom that 

 rot gets started into the heart of the 

 trees through such openings. 



The sweet cherry bears most of its 

 fruit on the side of small spurs. The 

 blossoms are produced from buds on 

 spurs of the previous season's develop- 

 ment. Spurs more than one year old 

 often produce fruit, but the blossom 

 bud is produced on the growth of the 



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 outer and older wood growth is later 

 removed. In this way the tree top is 

 kept down within a definite limit. 



Peach pruning is a comparatively 

 simple process of pruning trees, al- 

 though it requires careful judgment and 

 thought, there is less difference of 

 opinion about the systems than with 

 the apples. The tree responds well to 

 pruning, both in the production of new 

 wood and in the healing of the wounds 

 made by pruning. There is a great 

 tendency in pruning peaches to do the 

 work rapidly and carelessly, leaving 

 stubs as an invitation for disease to 

 take hold of the tree. This invitation 

 is usually accepted, especially on the 

 larger branches, and in the smaller 

 branches, the wood is killed back from 

 the edge of the wound, usually in a 

 greater area than is true with many 

 other plants. However, the pruning 

 process that can be practiced on 

 peaches does not of necessity weaken 

 the vitality of the plant and is a neces- 

 sily for the maintenance of the pro- 

 duction of satisfactory crops of good 

 fruit. 



The apricot can be pruned very much 

 the same as the peach. The trees grow 



in very much the same fashion. It 

 bears more fruit, however, on spurs, 

 and also bears a large proportion of its 

 crop on the side of the last year's twig 

 branches. The same general type of 

 tree and general method of pruning can 

 be practiced on this plant. It is, how- 

 ever, very susceptible to ill effects, 

 age of wood, and good fruits are seldom 

 produced on old woods. In apricot- 

 growing sections, it is a very common 

 practice to head back very severely, 

 sometimes to the extent of dehorning, 

 and losing one or two crops on the 

 trees, for the sake of renewing the top. 

 But it is profitably done. There is a 

 strong tendency in the apricot to de- 

 velop only a few terminal buds on the 

 strongest branches, and for these few 

 to make all of the wood-lengthening 

 growth of the tree. This tendency un- 

 checked by cutting back produces the 

 tree top composed of several long poles 

 with only a few very small twigs and 

 short spurs for fruit production. The 

 life of a spur varies from two to five 

 years in extreme cases. It does not 

 average above three years, and the 

 largest and finest fruit is produced on 

 the one and two-year-old spurs and on 

 the side of the vigorous, growing 



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