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making conspicuous fruit -spurs alongside the 

 upright branches. The pruning of the tree is 

 shown in Fig. 176. There are three main or 

 scaffold limbs. Some of the other branches, 

 which are left, it may be necessaiy to remove 

 as time goes on ; but it is always difficult to 

 determine in the beginning just which ones are 



181. Well-formed pie cherry. 



wanted, and it is well not to trim the tree too 

 heavily, so as to reduce its leaf-bearing capacity, 

 and to set it into too strong growth of water- 

 sprouts. 



A Longfield apple tree is shown in Fig. 177. 



The variety has a weeping habit, and the effort 



must be to encourage the upper limbs and to 



remove the lower or drooping ones. How this 



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