24 HENRY LEUTHARDT NURSERY 

Pruning Grapes 
Grapes, like peach trees, grow their fruit only on 
one year old canes. It is futile to plant grape vines 
older than one or two years old. These also must be 
pruned back severely like the peaches. The grapes, like 
the peach, will never bear fruit the first year after 
planting, regardless how old a vine you may plant. 
Most of the old wood must be eliminated to get the 
live prolong growth. Cut tops back to 6 inches above 
the ground. Plant the “graft” below the surface. 
Pruning Cherries 
Of all fruit trees, cherries have the greatest amoun: 
of vitality when transplanted. Often up to 50 per cent 
of all unpruned cherry trees are killed. The pruning 
of the cherries reduces this great loss considerably. One 
year old cherries should be reduced to one-third of 
their size. Two and three year old trees should have 
all the side branches of their crown reduced to about 
one-third of their size. 
Pruning Pears, Plums, Apricots 
These varieties should also have the side branches 
of their crown reduced about one-fourth of their 
length. Some of these branches are stronger than 
others and the general rule is to reduce these over- 
gtown branches to the length of the average remaining 
branches. A good guide is to give the tree a pleasant, 
even and somewhat pyramidal form. 
Pruning Apples 
Dwarf Apples need little pruning. It will suffice 
to clip the longest branches back two or three buds. 
Also when there is an oversized branch or bruised 
branch which gives the tree a one-sided appearance, cut 
them back to the size of the other branches. 
Pruning Nuts, Quince 
These varieties require no pruning at time of their 
planting. 
Pruning—Standard Apples—Pears 
Both root and top should be pruned at time of 
planting before the tree is set in the ground; the neg- 
lect of this causes the loss of an immense number of 
trees. 
When taken from the nursery, the roots are more 
or less mutilated, therefore the balance of the trees 
must be restored by cutting off a portion of the sides 
and top branches. 
Cut back each branch or side limb to a bud not more 
than 4 or 5 inches above the highest side limb.. Where 
there are no side limbs the tree should be headed back 
