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New Invention fnr Pruning Trees. 



NEW IXVENTIOX FOR PRUx\IXG TREES. 



RUN'iXG trees is a sadly 

 neglected branch of the or- 

 chardist's skill. Many people 

 do not feel as if they could 

 afford to pay a professional 

 gardener to trim their trees 

 of superfluous branches, and 

 are themselves averse to the 

 rather hazardous performance 

 of climbing among limbs of 

 doubtful ability to sustain 

 one hundred and sixty pounds 

 or thereabouts of creeping 

 humanity ; consequently but 

 few orchards are indebted 

 to ought but nature for the 

 inclination of their stems and 

 branches, 

 proper and judicious pruning of fruit 

 induces beaut}', productiveness, large 

 size, and increased excellence in the fruit, 

 and long life and agre able form in the tree. Trees that are 

 crowded by an exce-ss of wood, do not receive sufficient air 

 and sunlight to perfectly elaborate their fruit— hence it becomes, 

 in many instances, spotted, deficient in flavor, color and size. 

 The great superiority of fruit grown with the assistance of 

 brick walls, espaliers, or such as are treated as dwarfs, is almost 

 entirely attributable to the trees receiving the frequent applica- 

 tion of the pruning knife, and also their favorable exposition for 

 the admission of unlimited quantities of sunlight and air. 



There are a great many croakers which infest the community, 

 who unremittingly protest against the advantages arising from 

 pruning trees ; asserting that it is the cause of disease, and also 

 that if commenced, it must ever after be perseveringly persisted 

 in, for the reason that for every branch cut off nature will immedi- 

 ately replace by a myriad of emulous sprouts. Very unfortunate- 



