340 How to Reach the Vase Form. 
winds. Six or eight branches are left to form the head. The process of 
shaping the tree then proceeds, as shown in the engravings. Fig. 1 shows 
the young tree to be cut off at the point marked by the dotted line C. 
Six branches, three on each side. are left, and the lower twigs shortened. 
Each of the branches left develops, during the year, as the one shown in 
Fig. 2, which is then cut at C again, and the shoots B and D are short- 
Fic. 1. FIG. 4. 
The Vase System of Pruning as Applied to the Olive. 
