28 PRUNING AT TRANSPLANTING. 



publisher would permit us to carry out the whole of this 

 subject, but we fear it will not ; we will only add, that in 

 all of pruning of the pear, apple, or cherry, and perhaps 

 other varieties, no knife should ever be used after the first 

 three years from transplanting ; walking through the orch- 

 ard and seeing here and there a limb growing too fast to 

 meet equality in after time of its associates ; just a pinch 

 of the finger and thumb, breaking away to a bud ; the 

 soft wood of the end is all the pruning that is required. 

 Nature is wild and is responsible, like mankind ; but like 

 mankind, she does best with just a gentle check here and 

 there, now and then. 



