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from four to six inches long in the first season ; at the 

 most, only two shoots came out from each shoot cut 

 back, but they have made fairly good growths this 

 year. Those planted in February, and pruned in 

 March following, made scarcely any growth, and not 

 one has made six inches of growth this season ; they 

 are only about a third of the size of those planted in 

 the November previous. There are other trees of the 

 same variety which were planted at the same times, 

 and in the same field, but were left unpruned for a 

 year ; and the growths of these trees this year are 

 far superior to the best of those pruned the first year 

 after planting, and there is no doubt about them 

 making the best trees ; the owner says no one will 

 ever persuade him to prune again until the trees 

 have been planted a year. 



The system of pruning I have advocated in this 

 note has been practised for some years, and I have 

 simply given some of the facts of my experience and 

 observations with the hope it will be tried by others/' 



