LECT. VIII 



PROFITABLE CULTURE 



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of shoots. Two or three of these push from each 

 shortened branch. In two or three years the tree 

 has sufficient branches, and cutting these back would 



FIG. 32.- OPEN BUSH APPLE TREE (see next page). 



result in more too many. The chief object of the 

 cultivator should be centred in keeping the branches 

 thinly disposed by thinning out any in summer that 



