PRUNING 



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Clean culture in a bearing orchard without an inter-crop is a 

 good plan while the trees are young. 



Pruning. — In starting a young orchard it is important to start 

 the trees right. Low-headed trees make the spraying easier, the 

 picking easier, and the pruning easier. The cultivation, however, 



Fig. 134. — Laying off the rows for planting peach trees. If the furrows are very straight 

 this method of laying out the orchard will save considerable hand Labor in setting the trees. 



Fig. 135. — A young peach orchard with rows of garden truck planted between the rows of 

 trees. (N. J. Station.) 



is a little more difficult, as the limbs of the trees are more in the 

 way of the implements and teams. 



In selecting the side limbs when the orchard is young remember 

 that these are to be the main limbs of the trees later on. They 

 should be at different heights on the trunk so they will not split off 

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