RIGHT AND WRONG CLOSE ROOT-PRUNING. 



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experience has shown, beyond all doubt, that fruit trees and 

 grape vines over three or four years of age, if set with long 

 and fibrous roots, are inferior to smaller ones, the rule by no 

 means holds good with close root-pruned trees, for a very 



RIGHT CLOSE ROOT-PRUNING. 



WRONG CLOSE ROOT-PRUNING. 



valuable and important point in close root-pruning is, that it 

 can be utilized to make living fence posts for newly enclosed 

 farms, fields or orchards. A china, cotton-wood, willow, 

 hackberry or sycamore, and, I presume other forest trees of 



