Contents xi 



PAGES 



Third-year Pruning 93 



Pruning Bearing Trees 99 



Pruning Young Peach Trees 102 



Training the Peach Tree 104 



CHAPTER VIII 



PRUNING MATURE TREES ....... 111-146 



The Justification of Pruning Ill 



Physiology of Pruning 112 



Summer Pruning 112 



The Healing of Wounds 113 



System of Pruning influenced by Bearing Habit . . . 113 



Pruning Tools 115 



Pruning the Apple 117 



Pruning the Apricot 123 



Pruning the Cherry " 125 



Pruning the Peach 127 



Pruning the Pear 133 



Pruning the Quince 138 



Pruning the Plum 139 



Thinning Fruit 141 



CHAPTER IX 



TOP-WORKING FRUIT TREES 147-172 



Top-working Desirable 147 



Limits of Grafting 148 



Top-working Old Trees 150 



Cleft-grafting 154 



Kerf-grafting 155 



Bark-grafting 155 



Terminal-grafting 155 



Season for Grafting 158 



CionWood 160 



Growing the Top 162 



Top-working Young Trees 165 



