CHAPTER X. 



PHILOSOPHY OF PRUNENG. 



PBTIMtNO, NATURS'S — WE PKUNB, TIBST, FOB SHAPE AND OOMELINEBS ; 

 BECOITD, rOK PBOrr — PBOTHNO TOUlfO TBEES IN THE NDBSERT — 

 KITLES FOB — SEASON FOB — PBUNINa FOB FBUIT IS TO BE DONE 

 OHIEFLT IN SUMMEB — THINNINO OUT — SROBTENINS-IN — ^BOOT PBDN- 

 ntO — PHU/OSOPHT OF — ADVANTAGES OF - OHABAOTEB OP BOOTS 

 FBODnOBD BT IT — IN THE VINE — SBVBRB IN WINTEB TO FBOOUOE 

 WOOD AND DIMINISH BLOSSOMS — ADAPT TO VABIBTH;? — IN 

 8CMMEB TO DIMINISH EXCESSIVE FBUITASE, AND TO DIBECT SAP 

 INTO NEW OANES — TBIMMINa IN GABDENESQUE, BEQUIBINQ A OOB- 

 BEOT ETE AND GOOD TASTE — PBUNING SHOULD BE CONDUOTBD 

 UPON TBUI/T PHILOSOFHIOAI. PBINCI7LES, OB NOT AT ALL — QUALI- 

 FICATIONS BEQUIBED IN THOSE WHO PBUNE — THE OFEBATION 

 SELDOM WELL PEBFOBMED — PBUNING OF THE GBAPE, SHOBT AND 

 LONG — BEASONS FOB AND OBJECTIONS TO EACH — SEASONS' FOB 

 FBUmNO THE VINE. 



Proning is one of the most important operations that 

 we perform upon plants, — especially woody plants. Prun- 

 ing, in some sort, has to be performed at all periods of 

 their existence and growth, and upon all plants, from the 

 noble forest tree, or the fruit trees of the orchard, of what- 

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