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The Principles of Fruit-growing. 



It is, of course, evident that there 

 is no one method of pruning young 

 trees which is all wrong, nor any other 

 which is all right. The method must 

 always be modified by the age and 

 shape of the trees, by the climate (or 

 part of the country) in which the plan- 

 tation is set, by the species of plants, 

 and especially by the ideal which the 

 grower has set for himself. In general, 

 it may be said that the younger the 

 stock the more nearly 

 to a whip it may be 

 pruned. 



Fig. 30. Grape plant, showing where it should be pruned. 



