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growers there is occasionally a difference of opinion as to whether young 
trees should be pruned, say, in the spring following the planting. 1 think 
they should, and will try and give a few examples. The next two figs., 
145 and 146, show two healthy young ' Tom Putt ' trees, planted in the 
autumn of 1898. I was invited by the owner to look over his trees in 
March 1899, and, discussing pruning, he said, " Would you cut back these 
trees or not ? " I said, "I should, every one." He did not agree with 
me, and said he would rather leave them a year to become rooted and 
then cut them back, as he had always been told it was a bad plan to cut 
Fig. 142.— Result of Negligent Staking. 
away any of the branches after the roots had been cut about. I tried to 
convince him that it was just the opposite, and that through some of the 
roots having been cut off a part of the branches should also be removed to 
balance the transaction. He could not take this view of it, but consented 
that I should prune one tree out of four of the same variety. The two 
trees shown were then as near as possible of the same size and shape, 
fig. 145 being the unpruned one. The pruned tree, fig. 146, did not make 
such strong growth as I had expected, but the season was a remarkably 
dry one, and the photographs were taken in the July following, when 
there had been scarcely any rain. 
