244 SOME SPECIFIC ADVICE 



average peach trees after they had grown two 

 seasons. The one at the left was trimmed to 

 the form advised in Fig. 157, and yet it was 

 the most shallow -rooted of all the trees ; and 



164. Typical results in peach trees. 



many other trees told the same story. Yet this 

 mode of pruning has for its object "to con- 

 centrate all the vital energy of the newly set 

 tree on a limited root -surf ace, and compel it to 

 strike several strong, perpendicular tap-roots, 

 and while doing this, not to allow its attention 

 to be diverted to forming side or lateral roots 

 at the same time."* 



Some of the facts of this experiment at Cornell 

 may be presented in the following form (the 

 planting dates being in May, 1896, and the final 

 notes taken December, 1897) : 



*Stringfellow, "New Horticulture," 100. 



