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No method has as yet become looked upon as standard as far as 

 pruning is concerned, systems ranging from the tree that is never 

 touched to clipping all of the current season's growth in half as if 

 pruning a peach tree. Some growers go over a tree and remove 

 large branches to admit light, others cutting out small branches of 

 one half inch or so in diameter to attain the same end. As the advo- 

 cates of each of the above plans are able to advance very good reasons 

 for their methods, I will let this part rest here. 



Twelve or fifteen years ago at Corning many acres w^ere planted 

 to all sorts of olives which were mostly undesirable types, which, 

 after grafting over to the better varieties, are making fine orchards 

 in one third of the time that it takes to plant tw^o-year-old trees and 



Fig. 73. — Photo of olive tree grafted in March, 1913, 

 The picture shows the tree one year later. (Photo by 

 H. J. Kenny Co., Corning, Cal.) 



bring them into bearing. There is a marked difference of opinion as 

 to whether budding or grafting is the best method of working over 

 old trees. It is very much easier to secure men who can get a large per- 

 centage of grafts to stick than it is to find budders who can get good 

 results. AA^ith budding it is necessary to cut the tree back and get 

 new wood in which to place the buds, while with grafting the scions 

 can be placed and started growing the same year the tree is cut back. 

 Bark grafting using pure beeswax is the most satisfactory method. 



Good results have been obtained by transplanting trees six and 

 eight inches in diameter, to more desirable locations. Stands of 95 

 per cent have frequently been obtained, very little care being exer- 

 cised in doing the work. Large branches are cut back, roots cut off 

 to within 16 inches of the stump, trees pulled out wnth a team, loaded 



