. A treatise on pruning forest and ornamental object of pruning should be to produce these condi-tions. The head, as has already been explained,should be oval in form ; the height of this, howevei; APPLICATION OF THE SYSTEM. 27 must depend on the size of the trunk and the ageof the tree when first subjected to the operations ofpruning. Selection of the Leader.—The branch most nearly per-pendicular on the trunk of the tree should be selectedto form the leader ; and it may be stated as an abso-lute rule, that whenever a branch near the top of thetree stands vertically on the trunk, or ev
. A treatise on pruning forest and ornamental object of pruning should be to produce these condi-tions. The head, as has already been explained,should be oval in form ; the height of this, howevei; APPLICATION OF THE SYSTEM. 27 must depend on the size of the trunk and the ageof the tree when first subjected to the operations ofpruning. Selection of the Leader.—The branch most nearly per-pendicular on the trunk of the tree should be selectedto form the leader ; and it may be stated as an abso-lute rule, that whenever a branch near the top of thetree stands vertically on the trunk, or even on anyfart of the trunk, it should be preserved for the leader(Fig. 22).. Fig. 22. — Oak sixty years old. Formation of aleader from a vertical branch. And it is wrong to suppose that only the originalleader can be used. Its place may be often suppliedby one of the lateral branches even ; and by shorten-ing the other branches to stimulate the growth of thenew leader, the tree will, in a few years, straighten upin a manner which will appear astonishing to persons 28 TREE PRUNING. unfamiliar with the results which may be obtainedfrom a sensible S3Stem of pruning. If none of the branches near the top of the treenaturally approach a vertical position, two or three orseveral branches should be preserved to form a com-pact head, as represented in Fig. 23. If the tree so
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