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Pruning. Whenever the apple needs heavy 

 pruning, the work may be performed at any 

 time from the latter part of autumn till early 

 in the spring. Light pruning may be done 

 at the same time, or it may be advantageous- 

 ly deferred till the latter part of June. The 

 apple, once property formed in the nursery, 

 needs little further pruning, except to remove 

 suckers, and dead limbs, (which always ought 

 to be taken off,) and occasionally also a limb 

 that is growing so as to deform or crowd the 

 head of the tree. 



DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF APPLES. 



Nearly fifteen hundred varieties of the ap- 

 ple have been tested, in the garden of the 

 London Horticultural Society, and several 

 hundred also in this Country. 



Instead of this formidable, worthless Cata- 

 logue, we propose to describe only twenty-eight 

 varieties all of which we know to be here un- 

 impeachably excellent fruits. 



We have numbered and described them 

 nearly in the order of their ripening. This, 

 as we have before remarked, cannot be done 

 very accurately, for reasons already stated 

 and, further, because several ripen simulta* 



