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cannot be followed by good growth the first season. Some transplanted and unpruned 

 trees die if the summer prove hot and dry, while others produce a few small leaves 

 only. The slender stems which thus attempt to grow must be cut hard back at the end 

 of the season, or free, healthy, fruit-supporting trees cannot be expected. Numbers of 



Fig. 31. PLANTING, PEUNINO, AND STAKING. (For references see text.) 



apple, pear, and other trees have been spoiled through their long young shoots or 

 branches not having been cut back either soon after planting or the following season. 



We now show correct and incorrect methods in planting and management. V, Pig. 

 31, shows a three-years-old standard pear-tree with seventeen shoots of the preceding 



