April i i, 1894.] 



Garden and Forest. 



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If the soil is in good condition, and the young trees healthy 

 and well rooted, there will always be something to do in rub- 

 bing out buds and removing superfluous shoots ; but it is 

 best not to do too much in this way at any single inspection. 

 Each tree of a vigorous young orchard should be gone over 

 every week or ten days, only the obviously necessary cutting 

 being done at one time ; and it is plain that the visits to each 



good point, also, to study each tree while visiting it with a view 

 to future removals of wood. A limb to be soon taken out may, 

 by pinching out its tip, be prevented from further growth ; 

 but if such a pinched limb is left more than a week or two, it 

 will push many of its lateral buds, and, therefore, the interval 

 between pinching and removal must not be long. 

 The trees of a young orchard are subject to injury by high 



Fig. 26.— A Garden Walk in Early Spring.— See page 141 



tree should be frequent enough to prevent waste of plant- 

 energy in useless growth. These frequent visits are also es- 

 sential to prevent damage from successive broods of insects. 

 The risk of severe shock to a young tree by too much cutting 

 at one time, causing arrest of growth, and consequent tendency 

 toward scrubbiness, should be always kept in mind. It is a 



winds, and after severe storms the orchard ought to be gone 

 through rapidly by two persons, and such trees straightened 

 up and firmed in the ground by careful treading, such as will 

 not injure the bark. A tamping-stick, somewhat flattened on 

 one side of the lower end, is useful in such work. If a racked 

 tree cannot otherwise be completely straightened up, so as to 



