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RENOVATING OLD ORCHARDS 



the fruit was simply prohibitive. Now it is down, as shown in 

 Figure 96, where the work on it can be done with comfort. 

 It had been neglected too long to form a model tree, yet no 



Fio. 95. — An old orchard before the work of renovating began; full of dead wood and the 

 foliage small and sickly. 



Fig. 96. — The same orchard as shown in Fig. 95 after three years' treatment. Many of the 

 trees are almost models in form and foliage, and all are greatly improved. 



one would ever recognize it as the same tree shown in Figure 93. 



In this renovation work the operator has to be very careful 



about the wounds which are made in pruning. Many of them are 



