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Peach-Growing 



In Fig. 16 is shown an eight-year-old peach tree which has 

 become rather "leggy." The annual growth for several 

 seasons has nearly all been made near the extremities of the 



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Fig. 16. — A peach tree eight years old with bearing surface mostly 

 at the extremities of the limbs. 



limbs. Very little new wood has grown in the interior of 

 the tree. Figure 17 shows the same tree after being severely 

 headed in, or "deheaded," ^ with a view to developing a new 



1 The term "dehorn" has been widely used to express this opera- 

 tion. That word is entirely inappropriate and meaningless when 

 used in this connection, even though it may be a perfectly proper 

 and expressive one when used in referring to the removal of a cow's 

 horns. Though this term has been used for many years, apparently 

 with common consent, and without protest by other writers, the 

 term "dehead" is suggested as being much more appropriate and 

 one the use of which is sanctioned at least by its derivation, if not 

 by its appearance in a dictionary. 



