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The: Colorado Experiment Station. 
Fig. 12.—A peach tree severely cut back for the purpose of forming a new top. Some of 
these stubs will die back but the tree will form a good, new top. It would have hardly been 
safe to cut to stubs of this size had it not been for the smaller wood below. 
Fig. 13.—A new top, two years old, on an eleven-year-old peach tree. Such a new top is 
well worth the loss of one crop of fruit. 
Fig. 14.—A pear tree improperly headed-in. It is only reasonable to suppose that leaving 
large stubs with numerous fruit spurs bearing branch buds would result in a large number 
of sprouts. Heading-in will, of course, always start some sprouts, but their number may 
be greatly lessened by cutting back the leader to side branches. 
Fig. 15.—Is the same tree :as that shown in Fig. 14 one year later. It tells the whole story. 
