THE FEENCH SYSTEM OF PRUNING. 



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The theory is plausible enough, and perhaps in that 

 lies the greatest danger ; but the whole results of the 

 practice cannot be too sev- 

 erely denounced as barbarous 

 in the extreme, and it is only 

 to be wondered at that in 

 passing through so many in- 

 telligent men's hands in the 

 ' Journal of Forestry/ it was 

 not more severely criticised 

 than it was. 



Fig. 10 is an illustration 

 of what the French regard as 

 a model tree for pruning, and 

 to which, it is presumed, they 

 wish all trees to conform. 

 Fig. 11 is a tree denounced 

 by the French arboriculturist 

 as injudiciously pruned, and no one will le in any way 

 surprised at it being so denounced. But when we are 



Fig. 10. 



Fig. 11. Fig. 12. Fig. 13. 



invited to look at fig. 12 the same tree when it 

 has undergone what the French terms proper pruning 



