98 



SELECTING, PLANTING, AND CULTIVATION. 



restraint of its irregular growth can be better per- 

 formed in its succulent condition by summer pinch- 

 ing. But as the form of nursery trees is usually very 

 imperfect, and will require severe pruning to reduce 

 it to regularity, we should perform this labor in 



Fig. 29. 



Fig. 31. 



such a manner as to need no repetition, and so that 

 only the gentler restraints of summer pinching, and 

 the pruning of young shoots, will be needed, to 

 induce a handsome shape. The great difference 

 between the effects of two methods of pruning may 

 be seen by reference to the figures. Fig. 30 repre- 

 sents a maiden plant or tree of one year's growth 

 from the bud, with a mark at A, to indicate the place 

 at which it is frequently shortened in the fall pruning. 



