Contents xi 



PAGES 



Third-year Pruning 93 



Pruning Bearing Trees 99 



Pruning Young Peach Trees 102 



Training the Peach Tree 104 



CHAPTER Vin 



PRUNING MATURE TREES 111-146 



The Justification of Pruning Ill 



Physiology of Pruning 112 



Summer Pruning 112 



The Healing of Wounds 113 



System of Pruning influenced by Bearing Habit . . .113 



Pruning Tools 115 



Pruning the Apple 117 



Pruning the Apricot 123 



Pruning the Cherry 125 



Pruning the Peach 127 



Pruning the Pear 133 



Pruning the Quince 138 



Pruning the Plum 139 



Thinning Fruit 141 



CHAPTER IX 



TOP-WORKING FRUIT TREES 147-172 



Top-working Desirable 147 



Limits of Grafting 148 



Top-working Old Trees 150 



Cleft-grafting 154 



Kerf-grafting 155 



Bark-grafting .. . . . . . . .155 



Terminal-grafting 155 



Season for Grafting 158 



Cion Wood 160 



Growing the Top 162 



Top-working Young Trees 165 



