230 FRUIT AND ITS CULTIVATION, 



tain a proper balance between the two. We see, too, in 

 gardens standard trees, pyramids, and large bushes that 

 have their young growths barbarously cut off, like the 



Fig. 98. ANOTHER SIDE BRANCH OF APPLE TREE. 



This, unlike Fig. 97,' has developed fruit spurs at the base of its own accord. 

 Such variations occur in many varieties of the Apple and Pear. 



hair on a convict's head, and which never bear fruit for 

 the same reason. These are instances of want of know- 

 ledge of the true principles of pruning sheer crass ignor- 

 ance, in fact. 



