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worked in the nurseries with stems &quot;five or six feet high. 

 All that is necessary in pruning trees of this sort, is merely 

 to cut out the branches which cross or press upon one 

 another. Bushy heads should be thinned out, and those 

 which are too lax cut back. Three or four leading branches 

 may be selected, to pass ere long into boughs, and form a 

 handsome skeleton for the tree ; but it is useless to be 

 over-nice in this matter, as these branches will soon grow 

 beyond the power or regulation of the pruner, and of any 

 artificial system which he may adopt. Dwarf standards 

 being more accessible, are more under the dominion of 

 training. When worked on paradise stocks, they may be 

 kept not much superior in size to gooseberry bushes, and 

 in a state of abundant fruitfulness. The more fanciful 

 Dutch modes of training apple-trees in the cup and the 



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