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petuate itself. Girdling the limbs and pruning the roots also 

 tend to check the leaf-buds and increase the fruit-buds. 



L. GuRNEY : I should like to ask Prof. Munson if he thinks 

 that it is a good idea to make trees bear every year? 



Prof. MuNSON : If your trees are of the annual bearing kind 

 you can make them bear every year. By proper feeding and 

 pruning you ought to make any tree bear. 



Mr. Gurney: If you work your tree every day it cannot 

 live as long, can it, any more than a man ? 



Prof. Munson: True, but we can get more out of it while 

 it does live. So in the case of man ; we live faster while we do 

 live than did our ancestors, but not so long. 



T. M. Merrill : I should like to ask the professor at what 

 age he would advise setting trees from the bud ? 



Prof. MuNSON : Two years is about right, I should say. 



Mr. Merrill: Should you wait two or three years before 

 trimming out your young trees after setting? 



Prof. MuNSON : I should trim at time of setting. 



Mr. Merrill : Should you trim to a whip ? 



Prof. MuNSON : Not in the case of apple trees, leave two or 

 three branches, or at least stubs, to increase leaf surface so as to 

 strengthen the root system of the tree. 



Mr. Merrill: I have had the best success in trimming my 

 trees to a whip, cutting off all branches, clipping off the tops 

 wherever I can find three buds, and leaving a good spur to be 

 removed later. I always like to have three buds running out 

 at dift'erent angles and to leave a good spur above, so when this 

 withers down it will not kill the buds ; the spur should be two 

 or three inches long. This makes a good head and I have had 

 good success with it. 



E. W. Wooster: What do you think of the necessity of 

 pruning the trees so as to present the most surface to the sun ? 



Prof. MuNSON : Serious damage has often resulted from this 

 mode of pruning, as it allows too open a head, and trees are 

 injured by sun-scald. It is well to leave small branches in the 

 body of the tree. Do not trim large branches to a whip but 

 leave the twigs to shade the branches. 



A Member : In setting trees, is it a good plan to remove all 

 the roots? 



