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case of the bud, we grew the seedling tree for a year and 

 then cut the top off and lost all that year's growth and it 

 never got over it. And if you want a very good illustration 

 of the effect of pruning, severe pruning, just take two or 

 three trees and top-work them. If you can get any mora 

 discouraging situation in an orchard that to top-work them 

 I don't know of it. In other words, top-working apples 

 appeals to me about the same way as when a little boy came 

 in and told his mother, "Mother, Tommy Jones says Daddy 

 has got a big head." "Well," she says, "go on, go on. 

 There is nothing in it." (Laughter). Don't get into top- 

 working. The less pruning you can do to the young tree 

 until it bears, the better, and the sooner it will bear, I 

 have no use for summer pruning, and I don't think you need 

 iv, I am talking now from New York, my own conditions. 

 You can use what you like of it, but it seems to me that any 

 where the less pruning you can do, the better. Shall I 

 prune when I plant the tree? No. Plant your tree, take 

 off the limbs you don't want. If you can form your head, 

 do so. If you don't want all the limbs, decide which you 

 are to save, three limbs and a leader, perhaps, and if you 

 can posibly make the head when you plant it, do so. Take 

 everything else off, but don't cut back limbs you leave ; don't 

 cut them back. Why? I know that you all differ, and 

 that is what I want; I want a good discussion. Now why? 

 This terminal bud will start into growth ten days earlier 

 than any of those lower dow^n and you can't afford to lose 

 that ten days especially in the first year. In your heading 

 try to have limbs distributed at least six inches apart on the 

 trunk. If you begin your heading at 18 inches, then go up 

 10 or 12 higher for your next limb and so on. Make No. 

 T at 18 inches or probably 2 feet, No. 2 at two feet 6 and 

 then 3 feet, probably j get your head distributed. If you 

 get them all close together and the variety is Spy, when it 

 comes into bearing it will tear right down and crack open. 

 The distance the limb is from the ground will never be 

 greater than it is to-day. As the limb gets thicker, the lower 



