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N. B. — Heading down a peach tree three feet high to ten or twelve inches, 

 and cutting off all the side branches, is pretty severe discipline — needlessly so, 

 we should say. To be sure you could cover it up ; but it seldom happens that 

 anything more than the ends of the shoots are winter-killed, and it is easy to cut 

 them off, and save all the rest. After a dry season, like the last, the wood is 

 likely to be well ripened, and consequently in little danger of winter-killing. We 

 would not pinch the ends of the shoots at present ; but later in the season, if they 

 threaten to grow too late, they may be pinched to advantage so as to check their 

 growth and ripen the wood. 



