150 



PETJIONG. 



parching sun-rays, and the sap reaches its destination 

 just in the condition Nature provided it in the roots, 

 without travelling an unnecessary distance. 



PEUNINQ TO FORM PYKAMmS. 



It is with considerable difficulty that trees in the 

 usual condition in which they are received from the 

 nursery are reduced to a pyramidal form, branching 

 from near the ground. K two years old from the bud, 



Fig. 33. 



Fig. 34. 



and lateral branches should have formed, the ruthless 

 knife of the nurseryman has pruned them away. 

 Figs. 33 and 34 are specimens of trees where some 

 feeble attempts have been made for the production 

 of a pyramid. The lower cross lines in Fig. 34: indi- 

 cate the vicious pruning such a tree would usually 



