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After the trees have grown and covered the space 

 allotted to each, the system of pruning must be 

 directed so as to continually keep the whole tree 

 regularly supplied with young fruit - bearing wood. 

 With a view to this, of course the yearly removal of 

 old wood in winter, and the laying in of a correspond- 

 ing amount of young wood in summer, must be care- 

 fully attended to. Fig. 16 gives an idea of what I 



FIG. 16. 



mean by this, and will serve to illustrate the pruning 

 out of old wood and laying in the new. The shoots 

 represented by the solid lines are those which bore 



