PRUNING VOUXC, TREES 



as heavily as the second 

 branch, which will 

 make a side branch. 



By the second 

 [third?] summer, these 

 trees should be so well 

 established that by 

 June they may be given 

 a second pruning. Each 

 branch left on the tree 

 will have grown 15 to 

 18, or in some cases, as 

 much as 30 inches long. 

 Instead of letting them 

 go the entire summer, 

 whenever they have 

 -made sufficient growth, 

 they may be cut back 

 in order to force out a 

 new set of laterals. The 

 following spring in all 

 probability about the 

 only pruning that will 

 have to be done will be a little thinning out here 

 and there. In case the laterals which come out as a 

 result of the pruning in June have made a very vigorous 

 growth, and are getting too rangy, they may be cut back 

 somewhat, although it will be in only extreme cases that 

 much cutting will have to be done on these branches. 

 Moderate clipping back is often advisable to prevent the 

 terminal bud from continuing growth, and producing long, 

 willowy growth. So this pruning may be continued for 

 two or three years, never leaving, as a rule, more than 

 about two branches where one was before. 



172. The fourth year. At the beginning of the fourth 

 year, a modification of the pruning may be made. It is 

 coming time now to let down on the heavy pruning. If 



FIG. 177 FIVE-YEAR APPLE PRUNED 



PREVIOUS SUMMER 



Note the length of the shoots which re- 

 sulted from summer pruning. 



