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STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. 



Deprive the feeble parts of fruit, and make the vigorous 

 parts bear all thej' will. 



Bend the strong parts down, put the weak erect. Tie and 

 arrange limbs as you want them. Make the tree your servant. 



The greater the number of erect limbs in a tree, the sooner 

 will its vitality be exhausted; it lives too fast. 



Fruit grown on short spurs is less liable to injury. 



The horizontal type of pruning gives a definite plan for the 

 life and habit of your tree, which is immensely superior to all 

 others. 



Lay a horizontal superstructure, and you build your tree 

 strongly. 



It is important that the man who plans the form of the tree 

 should follow its training thereafter. Do not deliver it over to 

 the accidental haggler who does not understand your plan, 

 and has none of his own. Snipping is not trimming. 



There is but little loss of fruit, or time, in changing the 

 form of the tree by the horizontal method of pruning; the tree 

 immediately begins a fruitful career. 



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Tree pruned by the so-called " Seml-Baronio System." 



SEMI-BARONIO SYSTEM. 



As is often the case, there are always many who believe they 

 can improve upon whatever method may be used, as in this 

 instance. Several orchards have been treated by what is called 



