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JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  G AUDEN ER, 
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FRUIT  OR  WOOD. 
NOTWITHSTANDIXU  p.ll  tliat  has  been  written 
on  the  pruning  of  fruit  trees,  it  will  always 
1)3  necessary  to  write  more,  simply  hecanse  the 
young  nnd  Comparatively  inex[,eiicnced  will  con¬ 
stantly  he  with  us  to  need  guidance  in  this  important 
matter.  Then  there  arc,  and  it  is  hoped  always 
will  bo,  ardent  amateurs  who,  becoming  fascinated 
with  the  magnificent  fruit  they  sec  at  exhibitions, 
determine  to  become  growers  of  equally  fine  or 
even  finer  samples. 
It  is  not  by  any  means  certain  that  all  of  them 
will  succeed  in  that  object;  indeed,  perhaps  the 
only  clement  of  certainty  about  the  case  is  that  the 
majority  will  not,  and  the  prohalfilit}^  is  that  not  a 
few  will  find  themselves  far  more  expert  in  growing 
foliage  and  woed  cf  robust  character  rather  than 
blossom  and  fiuit  of  the  best  quality  ;  though  some, 
contrariwi.oe,  will  “ro]  e”  bheir  trees  with  fruit  in, 
so  to  say,  double  quick  lime,  while  producing  little 
or  no  wood  for  extension,  and  think  themselves 
very  clove.’’. 
Nothing  is  easier  than  to  grow  far  too  much 
fruit  and  far  too  little  wood  on  young  trees  on  the 
one  hand,  and  a  forest  of  wood  with  a  paucity  of 
fruit  on  the  other  ;  and  in  the  absence  of  knowledge 
on  the  theoretical  principles  on  which  action  should 
be  based,  it  would  almost  seem  as  if  about  half  the 
people  who  plant,  or  arc  entrusted  with  the  charge 
of  trees,  are  prone  to  fall  into  one  of  those  two 
extremes;  one  group  not  pruning  at  all, but  leaving 
the  trees  to  “  Nature,”  the  other  pruning  too  much, 
or  at  the  wrong  time,  and  relying  on  what  they 
call  “ait,”  and  thus  make  a  brave  show  wit li  the 
knife. 
It  is  scarcely  too  much  to  say  that,  with  very 
few  exceptions,  both  sections  are  wrong  in  their 
methods  for  building  up  trees  that  combine  sound, 
healthy,  thrifty  growth  with  fruitfulness;  and 
hence  it  is  that  we  are  obliged  to  sec  so  many 
stunted,  prematurely  w’orn-out  trees,  where  they 
are  left  to  “Nature,*  jffus  blundering  in  one  case, 
and  gross  thickets  of  exuberant  growths  minus 
productiveness,  where  they  have  fallen  victims  to 
artistic  pruning,  or  trimming  them  itito  shape,  by 
men  who  are  expert  only  in  the  prevention  of  fruit. 
No.  2021.  \'<)L.  <’.,  Old  .Sekik.s. 
