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SOME SPECIFIC ADVICE 



Wickson*, of California, protests strongly 

 against the prevailing fashion of high -topped 

 trees : " Low heading has for us all the advan- 

 tages for which this practice is approved in other 



124. Vase-form peach tree. 



parts of the world; viz., accessibility of fruit 

 and ease of pruning, symmetry and solidity, and 

 consequent decrease of danger from high winds, 

 and greater facility of approach to the trunk 

 with the horse in cultivation. This last point 

 has been contested on our own soil, for experi- 



* California Fruits," 149. 



