32 PRUNING OF STANDARD APPLES. 



(if required) be kept in a much less space than 

 those described above, and by this way of prun- 

 ing, the trees may be, with proper management, 

 kept perfectly free from the canker. 



PRUNING OF STANDARD APPLES. 



Par. 13. The pruning of standard apples has 

 for many years past been attended with very 

 dangerous consequences, on account of the can- 

 ker ; for where the tree has not been cut parti- 

 cularly clean, or left at all bruised, there the 

 insect would be sure to get in, and keep wound- 

 ing the tree further and further, till it completely 

 ruined it ; therefore, in all kinds of pruning, you 

 ought to cut very smooth and clean, and then it 

 will soon heal over, but if bruised or left rough, 

 it will not. 



Having selected the standards with young 

 heads, such as are recommended in paragraph 

 the seventh, I should plant them without touch- 

 ing their heads with a knife, for if you cut them 

 down, and they do not break freely the first year, 

 they seldom do well after; but if the head is not 

 cut, and the tree does not grow much the first 



