Pruning and Training 



essential, for plum trees will make too much wood 

 if they are continually winter pruned. 



Secateurs may be used for gooseberries, rasp- 



FIG. 9. Bush Apple in its second year. (Raised by 

 the Author.} Photo by P. H. Alder -Barrett. 



berries, and roses, but as explained above I do not 

 like them for hard wood. 



CHERRIES. 



Cherries do not require much pruning once the 

 young tree is formed, a thinning out of the weakest 

 branches being all that is necessary. 



This thinning should be done while the tree is in 



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