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until it was large enough to cut back at a proper point to make it 

 branch and spread to fill in that part of the tree where the broken limb 

 was taken out. In this ease this sprout was a sucker when it could not 

 be used, but when circumstances permitted its use it was no longer a 

 sucker. 



This building of a lemon tree is accomplished by a systematic cutting 

 out and back. This does not necessarily mean that the tree should not 

 be expected or allowed to bear fruit during the building of the frame. 

 More and better fruit will be produced at an earlier date than if the 



Fig. S4. — Showing appearance of a two- 

 year-old lemon tree before pruning in the 

 spring. (Original.) 



tree had been allowed to follow its natural propensities, as the fruit 

 limbs and fruit spurs will develop each year in the part of the frame 

 which has been built the year or years previous. It must be remem- 

 bered while building the framework of the tree that fruit limbs and 

 fruit spurs are being developed also, and care must be exercised during 

 the building process not to trim out these fruit limbs or fruit spurs 

 except where they are too thick. Never crop off the ends of the fruit 

 lini])s or fruit spurs. 



The question Avhen to begin to build or train a lemon tree is an 

 important one. Just as soon as the bud grown from the seedling stock 



