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GENERAL PRINCIPLES. 



results in one season that two or more would be required 

 for, if we depended wholly on the winter pruning. We 

 will suppose, for an example, the case of a young nursery 

 tree in the second year, intended for a standard. In ordi- 

 nary cases, the terminal bud, either the natural one or 



Fig. 85, A Fig. 85, B. PRUNING AND PINCHING. 



Fig 85, A, head of a young tree ; b, the leader ; a, a, vigorous shoots below 

 it, that ought to have been pinched. Fig. 85, B, a branch of the pear, twice cut 

 back, with the lateral shoots pinched ; a, a, the first section ; c, c, c, the second ; 

 , and d, d, shoots pinched close to favor the leader and those below them. 



that pruned to, is developed into the leading shoot or 

 stem, and a greater or less number of buds below it pro- 

 duce branches ; and it frequently happens that some of 



