PRUNING OF TRAINED APPLES. 35 



The season I should recommend for pruning 

 apples, is from the middle of January till the 

 middle of March ; some will prune through 

 April, and so late as May ; but my opinion is by 

 causing the sap to flow, and the tree to bleed 

 too freely when the bloom is tender, often causes 

 the fruit not to set well. 



Another thing should be observed in pruning 

 of dwarf and trained apple trees: there are 

 some sorts which bear principally at the end of 

 the young shoots; where that is the case, you 

 should always leave plenty of the young one 

 year shoots; for want of a knowledge of this 

 many fail in their crops on trained trees, for if 

 the bloom is cut off we cannot have fruit ; this 

 is easily discovered by leaving those sorts you 

 are unacquainted with till March, before you 

 prune them, you will then see where they shew 

 their bloom, and the tree may be kept free, by 

 taking away old wood instead of young. 



BUDDING OF APPLES. 



Par. 15. Budding of apples some years back, 

 was much more practised than at the present 



