THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



risen well, it will probably require thinning, 

 particularly if much becting has been found 

 necessary. This must be performed with 

 the caution requisite, according to situation, 

 and as hinted in last Section. But the nurses, 

 if any were planted, will chiefly be the ob- 

 jects for removal. It may be thinned to the 

 distance of from four to six feet, less or 

 more, as the trees are situated. 



But even this must be regulated by prun- 

 ing up, at the same time, such plants as may 

 stand, and have room, for some three or four 

 years, until again revised. 



Trees of this age may be pruned into 

 form with facility, and without the aid of 

 any other instrument than the pocket-knife 

 and saw. Branches that are misplaced, or 

 drawn out of form by being crowded, and 

 which have not laterals conveniently placed 

 to determine their being shortened, may be 

 lopped clean by the bole without injury. 

 Others should be stopped at about one half 

 or two thirds of their length, and the tree 

 pruned, as much as possible, into form, as 

 recommended in the Section on Pruning, 

 Chap. IV. Thus determining the distance, 



