Transplanting. 



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part cut off. Now the leaves are constantly (during day) throwing 

 off insensible moisture in- 

 to the air ; and good-sized 

 trees thus give off daily 

 many pounds. Reduce 

 the supply from below, 

 and the leaves cannot 

 nourish ; and if the re- 

 duction is severe, the tree 

 withers and dies. 



The remedy consists in 

 lessening the number of 

 leaves, so as to corre- 

 spond with the diminished 

 supply. This may be 

 done by shortening back 

 every shoot of the pre- 

 vious year to one-quarter 

 of its length, and in extreme cases, every shoot may be shortened 

 back to one strong bud, just above the previous year's wood. Cut- 

 ting off large branches at random often quite spoils the shape. 

 Fig. 78 represents an unpruned tree, and Fig. 79 the same with 

 the shoots shortened b.ack. 



Where peach and other trees have been once a year trimmed up 



Fig. 77. 



Fig. 78. Fig. 79. Fig. 80. Fig. 81. 



to a single stem, while in the nursery, the mode of shortening is 

 shown by Figs. 80 and 81. 



