. The practical fruit, flower and vegetable gardener's companion, with calendar. Gardening. 54 FRUIT GARDEN. worked in the nurseries with stems five or six feet high. All that is necessary in pruning trees of this sort, is merely ^to cut out the branches which cross or press upon one another. Bushy heads should be thinned out, and those which are too lax cut back. Three or four leading branches may be selected, to pass ere long into boughs, and form a handsome skeleton for the tree; but it is useless to be over-nice in this matter, as these branches will soon grow, beyond the power or regulati
. The practical fruit, flower and vegetable gardener's companion, with calendar. Gardening. 54 FRUIT GARDEN. worked in the nurseries with stems five or six feet high. All that is necessary in pruning trees of this sort, is merely ^to cut out the branches which cross or press upon one another. Bushy heads should be thinned out, and those which are too lax cut back. Three or four leading branches may be selected, to pass ere long into boughs, and form a handsome skeleton for the tree; but it is useless to be over-nice in this matter, as these branches will soon grow, beyond the power or regulation of the pruner, and of any artificial system which he may adopt. Dwarf standards being more accessible, are more under the dominion of training. When worked on paradise stocks, they may be kept not much superior in size to gooseberry bushes, and in a state of abundant fruitfulness. The more fanciful Dutch modes of training apple-trees in the cup and the Fig. 4. Fig. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Neill, Patrick, 1776-1851; Emerson, G. (Gouvernour), 1796-1874, ed; Pardee, R. G. (Richard Gay), 1811-1869. New York, C. M. Saxton & Co.
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