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Fig. 2 is the same tree pruned. Its four leaders are retained, but 

 fchey are cut rather long, to side buds, about 8 inches from the crown, 

 on account of suitable ones not having been prodviced lower down the 

 leaders, r- ,, ,, 



Method of Planting. 



The trees should be planted out as 

 soon as possible after the planting 

 season commences, in June. It 

 may be observed that when the trees 

 are lifted early from the nursery, 

 and heeled in, they frequently produce 



Plate 27. — Same two Trees showing One Year's Growth and Branches. 



a number of fibrous roots, which are afterwards destroyed when 

 the trees are being further removed and during transmission to the 

 planter. When early planting is adopted, and the fibrous roots, pro- 



