PYHAMIDAL TRAINING OF THE PEAR, TREE. 387 



longer thej are cut. 



Fig. 190. 



A careful glance at Fig. 189 

 perfectly explains all this. 

 The succeeding prunings 

 differ notliing in principle 

 from the preceding, future 

 development taking place 

 principally in the middle 

 and higher parts of the 

 tree. Care should be 

 taken to guide in the de- 

 sired direction by means 

 of twine, and some- 

 times slender stakes, any 

 branches that may have 

 deviated from it. Thus 

 the pruning is carried on 

 till the tree becomes a 

 large and perfect pyra- 

 mid, the laterals being 

 well pinched in, and in 



Fig. 191. 



Figure theoreticcally indicating the Mode of 

 forming a Pyramidal Pear Tree. (See p. 389.) 



Young Pyramidal Pear 

 Tree. 



c c 2 



