PRUNING YOUNG TREES 



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elevation, and climate are factors which have a very close 

 relation to pruning. Likewise, the variety question is al- 

 ways to be taken into consideration. For example, the 

 pruning of the Jonathan in southern Idaho, at an altitude 

 of 2,000 feet, on a silt loam, is a different problem from 

 that of pruning Yellow Newtown in western Oregon on 



FIG. 146 MAIN BRANCHES BARREN BECAUSE OF NEGLECT 



This old Italian Prune tree has not been pruned for years. The frame and 

 lower branches have become barren through the dying of the fruit spurs which 

 were too much shaded by the thick, bushy top. This top consists largely of long, 

 slender, weak fruit spurs and fruiting branches like those in Fig. 168. 



