18 MANAGEMENT OF APPLES IN NURSERY. 



but this the reader will be more fully furnished 

 with under the head of pruning. 



The dwarfs likewise after one year heading 

 down, will have formed shoots enough, and will 

 never be at a better age for planting. 



Although a few trees may have grown five or 

 six feet high, and make tolerable good standards 

 the second year, you seldom find many ; there- 

 fore after taking away as many half standards 

 as you may have occasion for, the March fol- 

 lowing begin to make your half standards into 

 standards, by cutting off all the side shoots, 

 leaving the upright shoots, cutting that off 

 about five feet six inches high, and some six 

 feet, but trees are none the better for being too 

 high in the stem. 



After the next summer's growth, if the trees 

 are tolerably strong and have formed a head of 

 five or six shoots, they cannot be in a better 

 state for general planting, for their shoots 

 likewise are formed alternately from the stem, 

 which when they get large, causes every limb 

 to receive free and equal nourishment from the 

 main stem. 



As the trees will not be all fit this season, it is 



