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Fancy Trained 

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as they will, only pinching back surplus shoots to three leaves to 

 form more fruit spurs. You will bear in mind that all fruit trees 

 that bear their fruit on spurs, when they have their shoots cut back 

 IN SUMMER to half an inch will form fruit spurs, and if pinched 

 back IN SUMMER to three leaves, will do likewise. Every year 

 these little bush trees will bear more and more fruit, the first year 

 producing perhaps one or two, the second year perhaps a dozen, the 

 fourth one bushel, and thereafter increasing crops. It must be re- 

 membered also that these fruit are so completely under control that 

 they may be thinned without difficulty to just what the capacity of 

 the tree will justify for production of first quality fruit; they are 

 so dwarfed that the wind has little effect on the fruit in causing 

 windfalls. These dwarfed trees are capable of being trained in a 

 number of different forms, but simple bushes, Espaliers, Pyramids 

 and Cordons are best adapted to the apple (see cuts for different 

 forms of trees) . All these forms are the result of training and judi- 

 cious pruning, and although many of them are the result of pure 

 "fun and fancy," others have very important advantages. It will 

 be observed pruning is of two distinct classes, one for the production 



