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being fully convinced from many years prac- 

 tice, that it is not necessary when the pre- 

 ceding directions are attended to. And if a 

 tree can be so managed as to do well and 

 retain its entire head, it certainly must be far 

 preferable to the practice of shortening the 

 branches. 



Healthy fruitful trees, removed and treated 

 as here directed, I have found generally to 

 bear a good crop of fruit the first summer, 

 and never failed to do so the second. Also 

 luxuriant trees have uniformly been produc- 

 tive at the second summer, the check they 

 received by removal throwing them into a 

 fruitful state. 



