Practical Orcharding On Rough Lands. 2 1 3 



to check the growth of trees by pruning them 

 at certain times. We have also said that when 



the lives of trees were threatened thev at- 



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tempted to accomplish their mission, namely, 

 produce seed. So we learn that we mav cause 

 a tree to produce fruit by threatening its life. 

 This may be done in many ways. The bark 

 may be split from the limbs to the ground, as 

 many of us have seen practiced. The body may 

 be driven full of nails, or we might prune 

 their roots. Any or all of these and many 

 other things might be done, which would 

 threaten the life of the tree and cause it to at- 

 tempt to reproduce, or to bear fruit. 



Checking Growth to Cause Fruitful- 



NESS. — ^When we threaten the life of a tree the 

 wood growth is checked and the fruit buds are 

 caused to form just as was described in the 

 chapter on cultivation, under the head of 

 ^^Growing Plants to Check Growth of Other 

 Plants." So it is in regard to pruning to cause 

 trees to bear fruit. The work must be done at 

 a time to check the growth. As in the case of 

 the shade tree, where we found its growth was 

 checked because it was deprived of part of its 

 leaves, and when we come to prune to cause it 

 to bear fruit, we will pursue the same course 

 by removing the limbs — that may be spared — 

 after the leaves are full grown, thereby de- 



