. Bulletin . Fig. 1.—Result of a heading-back cut at a whichforced buds just below the cut into vegetativebranches. Cuts of this kind are desirable onlywhere many branches are needed. Such cuts de-velop thick trees with much unproductive wood. Cutting to Lateral Branches.—Lowering or shortening a limbby cutting to a lateral branch does not seem to start out quite as. Fig. 2.—Cutting to a strong lateral, as at L, is the most desirable method of shortening a limb,the cut at (a) where a side branch has been removed is properly made. many side branches as does heading back. Also it does notseem to
. Bulletin . Fig. 1.—Result of a heading-back cut at a whichforced buds just below the cut into vegetativebranches. Cuts of this kind are desirable onlywhere many branches are needed. Such cuts de-velop thick trees with much unproductive wood. Cutting to Lateral Branches.—Lowering or shortening a limbby cutting to a lateral branch does not seem to start out quite as. Fig. 2.—Cutting to a strong lateral, as at L, is the most desirable method of shortening a limb,the cut at (a) where a side branch has been removed is properly made. many side branches as does heading back. Also it does notseem to dwarf as much, particularly if the lateral is a stronggrowthy branch of about the same size as the main branch. As a result, cutting tolaterals can oftenbe made to shapeand train a treewithout securingthe great num-ber of side shootsand branches thatresult from aheading -backpruning. It seemsprobable that apeach growercould cut to sidebranches on bear-ing trees moreoften than iscommonly thecustom (see ). Correction ofWeak Crotches.— When two branch-es come out atthe same placeand are of thesame size theywill eventuallyform a very weakcrotch (see ). If one ofthese two is cutback, it becomesdwarfed, whilethe branch un-pruned grows at the usual rate. The result is that the dwarfedbranch becomes the side branch and the unpruned one becomesthe main
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