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on fruit trees consist of what may be termed beneficial injury — an injury 

 to the branches or roots, done in order to develop buds which would other- 

 wise remain dormant, or to modify the development of already existing 



Fig. 9. 



buds. The transplanting of nursery stock, root-pruning, disbudding, and 

 the various forms of branch-pruning, all come under this category. It is 



Fig. 10. 



scarcely necessary, however, to point out tbat in all these cases, and in that 

 of careless planting, too, there is a limit to the extent of the injury which 

 will produce the beneficial results. 



