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TREE PRUNING. 



ceived from falling trees, to support their own weight, 

 and bend over to the ground. When possible such 

 trees should be straightened and kept 

 upright by the aid of a wire fastened 

 to a neighboring tree. When a wire 

 is used for this purpose, it should be 

 fastened to a branch, and not to the 

 trunk which it might, by its cutting 

 and charing, easily seriously injure. 



Should it be found impossible to 

 straighten (Fig. 38) the young tree, 

 it must, unless cut back close to the 

 ground with the loss of several years' 

 a f gwth, be shortened in at some dis- 

 tance (A) above the bend caused by 

 the weight of the head ; and above a branch C, 

 which, while furnishing the stump with sufficient 

 sap, may be used as a withe to support in a ver- 



Fig. 38. Young tree bent to the ground by the weight of its top. 



tical position the young branch B, destined to 

 form the new leader. The young tree thus reduced, 



