. The pruning-book; a monograph of the pruning and training of plants as applied to American conditions. make low heads, andyet anyone who can see a tree should know bet-ter. The number of trunks which a tree has, doesnot determine the direction of the leaf-bearinglimbs. The tree in ^ ^ ^, Fig. 123 can be V^J/rl ^ ^ ^. wm^. .•,^- long trunk. In fact, ./^\ibranches which starthigh from a trunkare very apt to be-come horizontal andto droop. There mustbe a certain numberof main or scaffoldlimbs to form thehead. If these limbsare taken out compar-atively low, they maybe trained in an upright direc


. The pruning-book; a monograph of the pruning and training of plants as applied to American conditions. make low heads, andyet anyone who can see a tree should know bet-ter. The number of trunks which a tree has, doesnot determine the direction of the leaf-bearinglimbs. The tree in ^ ^ ^, Fig. 123 can be V^J/rl ^ ^ ^. wm^. .•,^- long trunk. In fact, ./^\ibranches which starthigh from a trunkare very apt to be-come horizontal andto droop. There mustbe a certain numberof main or scaffoldlimbs to form thehead. If these limbsare taken out compar-atively low, they maybe trained in an upright direction and hold theirweight and position. If they are started out veryhigh, they will not take such an upright direction,


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