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to generate suckers from the limbs. Judicious 

 pruning, however, will promote health and 

 early fruitfulness. Trees differing, as they 

 do in form, require very different treat^ 

 ment in pruning, Coxe, of New Jersey, says, 

 " those who can conveniently do it will find a 

 benefit from forming the heads of their trees 

 in the Nursery, the year before they remove 

 them when transplanted, they will thrive 

 more rapidly from not having been pruned at 

 the time of removal." 



Every limb which crosses another should be 

 taken off. In pruning apple and pear trees, 

 the external branches should be every where 

 rendered thin and pervious to the sun. 



TRANSPLANTING. 



In the removal of trees, care is necessary ta 

 obtain as much of the roots as possible, and in, 

 re-setting, that none are doubled back and dis- 

 torted. Cutting off smoothly the end of each 

 root that may be broken or cut by the spade, 

 is indispensable, and all fibrous roots that are 

 injured should also be cut close to the root 

 upon which they are attached ; the root or 

 stem should be pressed close down on the 

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