PRUNING AND TRAINING. 



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Fig. 52. 



Priming-saws. 



Pruning saws. When pruning 

 trees, the branches of which are 

 too large to be cut off with a strong 

 pruniug-knife, a proning-saw or 

 two (Fig. 52) will be desirable. 

 A and B represent the most ap- 

 proved style of such saws, copied, 

 by permission, from R. H. Allen's 

 Catalogue of Agricultural Imple- 

 ments, one of which has coarse 

 teeth, for cutting off large branch- 

 es, and the other fine teeth, for 

 small branches. 



Fig. 53. 



Fi*. 54. 



Pruning-shears. 



Pruning - shears, like the above 

 (Fig. 53), will frequently be found 

 convenient when clipping the ex- 

 tremities of small branches. 



A Combined Pruning -chisel and 

 Saw. Figure 54 represents a con- 

 venient instrument for pruning old 

 trees, while the operator stands on 

 the ground. The end of a stiff 

 pole enters the socket ; and small 

 branches may be severed with the 

 chisel by means of a thrust, or 

 they can be sawed off at the de- 

 sired place. Such a combined in- 

 strument will be found efficient for 

 removing sprouts and dead branch- 

 es from neglected trees. The saw 

 should have fine teeth, or it will be 

 difficult to make it work. In some 

 instances, the saw will cut more 

 satisfactorily by changing ends 

 with it. 



weak but important shoot which is receiving too little 

 nourishment, because a gourmand above it is monopolizing 

 all the sap and sunlight; no calculation for future years, 

 that the foundation now laid shall be the basis of a suffi- 

 cient number of branches, filling advantageously every part 

 of the tree, while none shall crowd or interfere with its 

 neighbors. 



In most instances, the tree is said to need pruning, and 



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