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part of the stem, attracting an undue proportion of the 

 sap, thus contracting the growth of all other parts, and 

 giving the young tree a deformed character. All such 



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• B 



Fig. 83 (iJ). 



Fig. as, A. head of a young tree ; B. the leader; a, a, vigorous shoots below 

 it, that ought to have been pinched. Fig. 83, B, a branch of the pear, twice cut 

 back with the lateral shoots pinched ; a. a, the first section ; c, c, c, the second ; 

 b, and d, d, shoots pinched close to favor the leader, and those below them. 



shoots as these should be nipped early, the moment their 

 character is apparent, and thus a year's growth nearly 

 will be saved to the tree, and its proper form and propor- 

 tions be preserved. In conducting young trees for pyra- 

 mids, the constant and careful application of pinching is 



