THE MAKING OF TREES 



latter is shown alone in Fig. 20, as a third year tree which must be 

 compared with its two year form in Fig. 19. These illustrations 

 will show the novice that trees are made by means of pruning, but 

 we want him to understand that pruning is work for skilled, not 

 unskilled, hands. There are two classes of men who, with their 

 pruning knives in hand, we cannot look at without a feeling of 



FIG. 1 6. Two-year Pyramid on 

 Paradise Stock 



Shaded portions, Old Wood 



Light portions, New Growth 



after Pruning 



Cordon Pear 



apprehension and alarm ; one is the novice who sees no danger 

 and slashes away accordingly the other, the man who with the 

 wisdom of the owl upon his face potters about a tree, snipping off 

 every shoot which he fancies interferes with its symmetry, and cuts 

 back the various stronger growths to where he thinks it will look 

 best. He gives no thought to the future because he lacks knowledge ; 

 and the present appearance of the tree is all that matters to him. 



