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fact, everyone was cut off square. I am referring to limbs about four or 

 five inches in diameter. If we had to do this I thinlf the better way 

 would be, as an old German once told me, to cut them just like you 

 would cut a bologna, cut it so the moisture would flow away from it 

 instead of staying on top. 



I don't wish to say so much myself and I would like to have the 

 audience discuss the subject more. But I dislike to have a discussion or 

 talk of this kind on pruning to go out before the public because I am 

 afraid it will give an erroneous idea. We will all understand it, but the 

 general public will misunderstand it and get a wrong idea unless we are 

 more guarded in what we say. I am afraid Brother Heath has got an 

 orchard that has been savagely cut. I don't luiow what shape it is in, 

 but I think he has been doing some heavy pruning from what he told me, 

 whether he did it judiciously or not I could not say. Severe pruning of 

 trees in this climate from my experience is somewhat of a detriment, if 

 I am wrong I wish to be corrected. 



Mr. Beltzer: Mr. President, up in our county I know of one orchard 

 which is probably twenty-five years old. The owner asked me about prun- 

 ing. He said he wanted to go to work in his orchard and asked me 

 for some advice. His orchard had been neglected and looked bad. He 

 had it in fairly good condition in earlier days. I told him the general 

 impression of the horticultural society was that heavy pruning would be 

 good for it. He did not pay much attention to what I said, but he did 

 prune heavy and cut off limbs and I think there are now more dead trees 

 in his orchard than in any other orchard I have seen. Some years ago I 

 did some heavy pruning. I thought a bushy tree did not look nice and I 

 went into it with a saw and pruning knife. Every time I say anything 

 about it, it throws a bomb in the audience which explodes. These trees 

 were never removed. The trees are the finest ever grown anywhere; 

 and the nurseryman don't like that. 



Mr. Swan: I always carry a pruning knife in my pocket and if it 

 is sharp I will use it any time I see any occasion that I think demands 

 its use. 



The President: The next number on our program is a paper entitled, 

 "Planting Small Fruit," by G. S. Christy. 



PLANTING SMALL FRUIT. 



G. S. CHRISTY, JOHNSON. 



The Raspierry. — "While the planting of raspberries may be success- 

 fully performed in the fall, if care is taken to protect each plant with 

 a forkful of coarse manure, yet spring is the time for general planting 

 and the time when it may be done at the least expense. Fall planting has 

 this advantage that if you fail to get a stand you can replant in the 

 spring and not lose a year as if spring planting alone is depended upon. 

 Kaspberries should be planted as early as possible after the frost is out 



