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Figure 3. Mcintosh tree in Clark Orchard after four years without pruning. Top is excessively 

 thick but production heavy. Quality of the crop is somewhat inferior. 





Figure 4. Mcintosh tree in Clark Orchard after heavy pruning. Such severe pruning reduces 

 the crop with some improvement in quality. Good pruning lies between that shown in this figure 

 and Figure 3. 



