PRUNING vriuxG ti;ee.s 



as heavily as the second 

 Lranch, which will 

 make a side branch. 



By the second 

 [third?] summer, these 

 trees should he so well 

 established that by 

 June they may be given 

 a second pruning. Each 

 branch left on the tree 

 will have grown 15 to 

 18, or in some cases, as 

 much as 30 inches long. 

 Instead of letting them 

 go tlie entire summer, 

 whenever they have 

 made sufficient growth, 

 they may be cut back 

 in order to force out a 

 new set of laterals. The 

 following spring in all 

 probability about the 

 oidy pruning that will 

 ha\'e to be done will be a little thinning out here 

 and there. In case the laterals which come out as a 

 result of the pruning in June have made a A'crv A-'gn-f-'s 

 growth, and arc getting too rangy, they may be cut l)ack 

 somewhat, although it will be in only extreme cas';'s tb.at 

 much cutting will ha\'e to be done on these branches. 

 Moderate clipping back is often adx'isa'ile to prevent the 

 terminal bud from continuing growth, and producing long, 

 willowy growth. So this pruning may be continued for 

 two or three j^ears, never leaving, as a rule, more than 

 about two branches where one was before. 



172. The fourth year. — At the beginning of the fourth 

 year, a modification of the pruning may be made. It is 

 coming time now to let down on the heavy pruning. If 



FIG. 177-I-1VE-YE,^R APPl E PRUNED 



PREVIOUS SUMMER 

 Note the Ient:th of the shoots which re- 

 sulted from summer pruning. 



