318 FRUIT AND ITS CULTIVATION. 



" Fig. 138 shows a standard tree much as received from a 

 nursery, and this, unpruned, is repeated in Fig. 139, only 

 furnished with all the leafy growth it is likely to form 

 during the first summer. As it happens, those clusters 

 of leaves represent 'so many fruit buds ; and in Fig. 1 40 we 

 have the same tree as it may be seen in full bearing the 



Fig. 140. STANDARD TREE AFTER Two YEARS' GROWTH. 



Showing the still further evil effects of non-pruning- the first year. Result, 

 a worthless tree. 



second summer after planting. If, instead of allowing 

 that tree to bear fruit, those branches had been duly cut 

 back to where they are marked in Fig. 141, the resulting 

 growth would have been more like that shown in Fig. 142, 

 and of a character that would develop into a serviceable 

 head. Let us repeat, stunted trees are a dead loss, and 



