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Fig. 125.— (P. 441.) 



?on, the tree will be much benefited 

 from having the upright shoot topped, 

 as the sap by this check will be forced 

 into the horizontal branches below, 

 which are often starved by the prodi- 

 gious and in a great measure useless 

 growth of the centre. All superfluous 

 shoots are to be pinched off within an 

 inch or two as they appear, and, as far 

 as may be, without leaving the branch 

 absolutely bare, and entirely cut out in 

 the winter pruning. 



" This treatment is to be repeated till 



those trees which have their first pair 

 of horizontal branches within nineinches 

 of the ground, arrive within two feet or 

 eighteen inches of the top of the wall. 

 These trees are to be considered per- 

 manent; those which have no branch 

 till they are one foot nine inches high, 

 are for a temporary purpose only, and 

 they may have a pair of branches within 

 four inches of the top of the wall. 



" In ten years, we will suppose, on a 

 twelve feet wall, most of the branches 

 will reach twelve or thirteen feet from 



