120 Strength in the Head. 
sible and still secure a good bud just below the point of cutting. 
To preserve these buds the trees should be handled carefully 
while removing from the nursery and during planting. 
If the tree has already grown laterals where the head is 
desired, three or four of these properly placed on the stem may be 
selected to form the main branches, shortened in to the sound 
bud nearest the stem, and other laterals, not desired to form the 
head, removed. This treatment is shown in the engraving of a 
young peach tree well branched in the nursery. If all the lat- 
erals on the young tree have started out above where the head 
is desired, as is sometimes the case, it may be necessary to remove 
the whole top, and usually others will start below afterwards. 
Twelve. VearOIG: apate 1ress in the writer’s garden at Berkeley, showing forms of head 
bape eg from cutting back for greater and less spacing of main branches at planting 
If there are no buds visible on the stem at the place where the 
head is desired, the choice must be made between heading the 
tree higher up, where the buds are, or cutting back without re- 
gard to buds, trusting to the development of latent buds at the 
right place, or to the growth of a shoot from below which can 
be cut back to form a head the following year. It is for this 
reason, among others, that planters prefer a yearling tree which 
has not branched, but has good buds all along the stem; but 
peaches and apricots usually branch in the nursery. 
After cutting back at planting, the shoots desired to form 
-the head are allowed to make their full growth without inter- 
ference. All shoots not desired for branches are pinched off 
