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and of poor quality. The remedy for this is, first, for 

 young trees, to plant further apart, and for old trees, 



FIG. 51 An Old Orchard Pruned from Below Only. 



to thin out where too close and cut back the long 

 branches and thus force the growth into the lower 

 branches as shown in Figs. 52, 53 and 54. 





FIG. 52 An Old Orchard Before Pruning. 



In an orchard with trees planted twenty to twenty-five 

 feet apart, when the branches begin to touch we may 

 obtain just as much fruit if one-half of them are cut out, 



