PRUNING AND TRAINING. 



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bud, which, is thus destroyed. To obviate this, it is 

 necessary to cut about half-an-inch above the bud ; 



Fig. 29. Pruning-Knife. 



Fig. 30. Sector. 



this leaves a short piece of dried branch which it is 

 necessary to cut off the following year, which unneces- 

 sarily multiplies the operations. The knife is, in our 

 opinion, the better instrument. If, however, we some- 

 times use the sector, we should place it in such a 

 manner upon the branch as to cut away nearly all the 

 part injured by the pressure. 



The operator should also provide himself with a 

 small hand-saw (fig. 1, page 2). 



METHOD OF PRUNING. 



The manner of cutting the branches is far from 

 being unimportant. If we wish to shorten a branch 

 (fig. 31), we make the amputation as near as possible 

 to a bud, but not so near as to injure it. We place 



