CHAPTER V 



SOME SPECIFIC ADVICE 



Having now traversed the fundamental prob- 

 lems involved in the pruning of plants, we may 

 give attention to various details of practice. 

 These details are largely personal opinions, and 

 are, therefore, of restricted application; for prac- 

 tice must vary with every personal ideal and every 

 environmental factor. The advice in this chap- 

 ter is not given with the expectation that the 

 reader shall follow it literally, but it may suggest 

 some of the methods which may be employed to 

 secure given results. The reader is again urged 

 to bear in mind the distinction between training 

 or trimming the plant into some desired form, and 

 pruning for definite results in the welfare of the 

 plant and in fruit -bearing. 



THE FORM OF THE TOP 



Much of the discussion respecting the best way 

 in which to prune young plants is confused be- 

 cause the disputants are not agreed upon the form 

 of top which it is desired to produce. It goes 

 without saying that different treatments must be 

 given two trees if one is to have a high head and 



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