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back have thrown out many branches. We 

 should thin them out and head in again. By 

 this time we shall find the growth has taken on 

 a more substantial appearance, and we may 

 not be surprised to find many of the small 

 twigs and spurs developing fruit buds. After 

 a few years of careful, thoughtful pruning, the 

 old thick topped, empty centered tree, may be 

 changed into a more open top full of young, 

 thrifty bearing wood. 



Pruning Only for Form and Size.— This 



is practiced in the forming of hedges or in the 

 training of evergreens or other ornamental 

 shrubs or trees, and seldom if ever applies to 

 pruning of fruit trees. This method of prun- 

 ing is really the continuation of that first prin- 

 ciple, multiplication of branches. It is by this 

 method we are able to get the solid shapely 

 form of the cedar or other evergreens that we 

 wish to grow into some certain shape or form. 

 It is by the same means that we are able to 

 make the hedge a smooth, solid mass of young 

 shoots. The failure to observe this principle 

 and put it into practice early in the growth of 

 our hedges results with their being open next 

 to the ground so that they are almost worthless 

 as fences. 



