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the check, forming many root-fibres before top-growth 

 commences in the spring, and these duly pruned form 

 fairly large numbers of strong young shoots the following 

 summer. Now, if the trees are not planted till late in the 

 winter or early in the spring, they will not have made any 

 appreciable move before the summer, and would not there- 



Fig. 139. STANDARD TREE AFTER ONE YEAR'S GROWTH. 



As the result of non-pruning-, the new growth is poor and stunted. 



fore be in a condition to respond to the knife might not 

 make shoots more than 6in. long, in fact. These late- 

 planted trees, then, ought to have an opportunity to form 

 some new roots before they are pruned, and, in plain 

 English, should not be pruned till they have been one year 

 in their new, and presumably final, quarters. 



