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And this may necessitate provision being made for cross pollination of 

 this variety later on. 



In consequence of its strong, upright habit of growth, orchardists 

 often experience considerable difficulty in shaping the tree into the 

 modern type. When the yearling whip-growth is planted out, and cut 

 so as to produce the main arms on which the branch system of the 

 tree is subsequently constructed, the three growths, made from the 

 first cut, usually grow too upright. When treating these on the second 



Plate 71. — Statesman, twelve years old. 



occasion, instead of pruning to two side buds on each growth to duplicate 

 the leaders, as in the case of varieties more amenable to modern prun- 

 ing treatment than the Statesman, they should be cut short to inner 

 buds. At next winter pruning the growths produced from the inner 

 buds together with the two-year-old portions of wood, which forms the 

 internodes between them and the secondary outside growths, should 

 be removed. In consequence of the outer shoots occupying lower posi- 

 tions on the two-year-old wood than those produced from the terminal 



