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tree without it being- interrupted or hrol<en by 

 any other bough or branch. 



It has always seemed to me that this ideal, 

 difficult I know of attainment with many varie- 



placed wood must be cut out every year, but I 

 do not advocate the removal of any but the 

 misplaced, though some pruners advise, or 

 practice if they do not advise it, the almost 



Fhutu bXj [Franklin, liteiituood. 



HisH Apple, Bismarck, the same trek as the one opposite, bit Prined. 



ties, gives the best hope of success in trying to wholesale removal ot the _\oung wood on the 



unite a rational system of extension and growth branches with the exception of a leader or two. 



of the tree with the positive essentials of proper This spurring-in system, no doubt, produces 



ingress of light and air into the tree and of ease some amount of good fruit, but not nearly, I 



in picking. believe, the quantity which could be given 



Of course, some considerable amount of mis uiuler more natural conditions, while it causes 



