TRA NSPLA N TING. 



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unpruned. The season was rather dry, and twelve of the thirty- 

 nine unpruned trees perished; and only one of those which 

 were headed back. The unpruned which survived lost parts 

 or the whole of the upper portions of 

 their branches ; the pruned made fine 

 bushy heads of new shoots. In another 

 instance, trees only one year's growth 

 from the bud, transplanted in the 

 usual manner unpruned, were placed 

 side by side with others of four years' 

 growth, and with trunks an inch and a 

 half in diameter, the heads being 

 pruned to one quarter their size. The 

 growth of the former was feeble ; the 

 large trees, with 

 pruned heads, 

 grew vigorously. 



The degree to 

 which this short- 

 ening should be 

 carried must de- 

 pend much on cli- 

 mate. In the cool, 

 moist atmosphere 

 of England, the 

 leaves perspire 

 less, and a larger 

 number may re- 

 main without ex- 

 hausting the sup- 

 ply from the roots. 

 In this country the perspiration is more 

 rapid, and fewer leaves can be fed, until 

 new roots furnish increased supplies. 



Cutting back after the buds have swol- 

 len, or the leaves expanded, often checks 

 growth, and usually should not be performed except on very 

 small trees, or on such as the peach, which quickly reproduce 



new shoots. 



Trees which quickly reproduce new shoots, as the peach, 



Fig. 105.— Yearling Peach- 

 Tree. 



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Fig. 106.— Peach-Tree, 

 Pruned. 



