28 PRUNING OF STANDARD APPLES. 



and I have seen by this process, the trees hang- 

 ing from bottom to top with apples like ropes 

 of onions ; and by pruning away all that su- 

 perfluous wood, the fruit receives the whole 

 strength and nourishment of the tree ; and be- 

 sides by this method, you not only throw your 

 trees into bearing, and produce more fruit, but 

 they have the advantage of the sun, so essen- 

 tial both for their flavour and beauty; the 

 trouble is no more than that of pruning your 

 currants and gooseberries, and surely apples 

 are to be worth as much attention. 



When the trees begin to get old, you may 

 occasionally leave a clean young shoot, and the 

 following year remove an old one, and by so 

 doing you will keep your trees in a young, 

 healthy, bearing state. 



Dwarf apples on the small Paradise stock, 

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

 than those described above, and by this way 

 of pruning the trees may be kept perfectly 

 free from the canker. See 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 canker ; for where the tree has not been 



