10 Jan., 191^-] 



Pn'pagdtuni of Fruit Trees. 



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Fig. 54a is another type of a strong well grown one-year-old apple 

 tree with low branch growths. With trees of this type the main stem 

 or central vertical growth should never be reduced back to the branches 



— the future head of the tree 

 should not be formed by 

 utilizing these branches. All 

 of the latter should be cut 

 away, close to the main stem. 

 Then reduce back to where 

 there are three or four good 

 sound buds, see Fig. 54/^. 

 The result will be, by the 

 following autumn, a tree with 

 sound head conditions that 

 may be packed without fear 

 of breakage during transit. 



F'g- 5 5'^ is a sound t\-pe of 

 an apple tree, produced from 



•a yearling stiaiglit or from a 

 branched yearling. This is 

 achieved by first reducing the 

 growths of the latter type back to 

 the main stem, making a straight : 

 and then, by heading back this 

 straight to sound buds the 

 requisite height from the ground. 



When pruning sucii a type 

 {Fig. 5 5«), cut away the central 

 branch, leaving the three lower 

 ones which form a well-balanced 

 head. As there are sound out- 

 side basal buds upon these 

 branches, cut back tcj them the 

 same as illustrated in Fig. 5 ^b. By 

 the winter followingsuch a type will 

 be what is termed a three-year-old, 

 and hard to separate from a well- 



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59. YEARLING PEACH TREES. 

 ii and 6. rupriined. c and d. Pruned. 



grown one-year-old branched pruned. When planting out permanently and 

 pruning a tvpe like Fig. 55a there is no necessity to cut so hard back. 



