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Real Gravely Chewing Plug — there's the 

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Dealers all around here carry it in 10c. pouches. A 3c. stamp 

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Thinning -Out and Heading -Back in the Apple Tree 



By V. R. Gardner, Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallis, Read Before the State Horticultural Society of Washington, January 4, 1918 



DURING recent years few topics 

 pertaining to fruit growing have 

 been discussed more frequently 

 and at greater length than that of meth- 

 ods of training fruit trees. So much 

 has been said and written about the 

 supposed advantages of the open-cen- 

 tered tree as compared with the 

 "leader" type of tree, and vice versa, 



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that it would seem that this question 

 would be practically settled, and that 

 difference of opinion regarding it 

 would no longer exist. Unfortunately 

 this assumption is not borne out by the 

 facts; for probably there never was a 

 time in the history of fruit growing 

 when growers were more completely 

 divided on this question. If this is true 

 regarding a question that has been dis- 

 cussed so often, it is not surprising that 

 there is much uncertainty in the minds 

 of growers when it comes to questions 

 of methods of pruning fruit trees, ques- 

 tions that have received comparatively 

 little attention in the horticultural press 

 and that have been touched upon but 

 casually at such meetings as this. This 

 last statement may seem a little sur- 

 prising to some; but it will be noted 

 that two distinct terms, applying to 

 two quite distinct practices, have been 

 used — training and pruning. 



At the outset it will be well to make 

 clear the difference between these 

 terms, for this article deals almost ex- 

 clusively with the one and hardly at all 

 with the other. Furthermore, it is be- 

 lieved that one of the main reasons for 

 so many conflicting ideas regarding 

 pruning is the failure to distinguish be- 

 tween training and pruning. Training 

 includes those practices that in one 

 way or another tend to develop or 

 modify the general shape of the tree; 

 on the other hand, pruning includes 

 those practices that aim to modify func- 

 tion — what the tree does, as opposed to 

 what it looks like — through the removal 

 of parts. This does not mean (hat func- 

 tion is absolutely independent of form. 

 Without doubt the two are to a certain 



degree inter-dependent, though this 

 degree is probably much smaller than 

 is commonly imagined. As a matter of 

 fact, the two sometimes may be entirely 

 independent. It would be possible to 

 train a tree on a trellis much as we 

 train American varieties of grapes, and 

 that without a bit of pruning. Like- 

 wise it would be possible to prune a 



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