THE FRUIT INDUSTRY ix XEW YORK STATE 



if a stub is left or if the cut is too close to the main body of the tree. 

 When large limbs must be removed, the cut should be made 

 slightly above the branch or trunk from which the limb is removed, 

 but not high enough to leave a stub, the cut being made so as to 

 leave as little exposed surface as possible and in a slightly sloping 

 direction in order to shed water. A most excellent plan is to cover 

 the wound immediately with lime and sulphur containing a con- 

 siderable sediment, which acts as a disinfectant and as a protectant 

 as well. 



FIG. 226. GREENING TREE IMPROPERLY PRUNED; TOO MUCH OF CEXTEH 

 REMOVED. IN ORCHARD OF EDWARD VAX ALSTYXE & Sox, KIXDERHOOK, X.Y. 



When trees are too close, limbs are often shortened a practice 

 that at best is of doubtful merit, for, unless there are twigs left 

 beyond the cut to draw the sap, the wound will never heal and the 

 limb will begin to die from the cut inward. Uusually it is much 

 better to remove an entire tree, since the roots will be as much too 

 close below the ground as the branches are above it. For a year or 



