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ence has demonstrated that properly trained trees 

 with low heads and obliquely -rising branches are 

 handier for the cultivator than high -headed trees 

 with drooping, horizontal branches. But these 



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126. Open-centered framework for apple tree. 



general advantages of low -trained trees are not 

 the chief ones secured in California in low -head- 

 ing. Hundreds of thousands of trees have been 

 destroyed by the exposure of a long, bare trunk 

 to the rays of the afternoon sun. The sun- 

 burned sides have given the conditions desired 



