PRUNING OF TRAINED APPLES. 31 



PRUNING OF TRAINED APPLES. 



Par. 14. As trained apples are not so much 

 in request since the introduction of common 

 Dwarfs, and as the pruning of them has been 

 so fully explained, it is necessary only to state 

 after the tree has been properly trained in the 

 nursery, the pruning it will require, will be si- 

 milar to the pruning and management of Dwarf 

 apples, in paragraph the twelfth. 



There is one great benefit arising from trained 

 apples ; while young the wind has not the 

 power of shaking them about so much, and 

 consequently the fruit is not so likely to fall ; 

 likewise, if they have no other trees to shade 

 them, the fruit is sure to receive the benefit of 

 the sun. 



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 i s 

 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 



