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Fruit-growing in Arid Regions 



points of the different stages. These were second-grade 

 trees, and were evidently three years old when planted. 

 The lower laterals had all been pruned away in the nursery, 

 so that the tops were much too high for this climate. 

 There was also difficulty in getting branches to form at 



21 21 o 216 



FIG. 21. Shaping the Top. 



21 c 



suitable places from which to make the selections for the 

 head. However, the results are much better than if 

 the tops had been left as received from the nursery, as 

 is so often done. 



The trees in Figures 21, 22, and 23 were all headed-back 

 to about 24 inches in April, 1904. This left them mere 



