. A treatise on pruning forest and ornamental ionsmust disappear before more scientific and rationaltreatment. A glance at Fig. 1 shows the effects of bad prun-ing. Here the trunk of a Beech is representedmutilated, and in a conditionwhich might well justify thegeneral condemnation of prun-ing, if pruning was always fol-lowed by such results. A system of forest manage-ment which discards pruningis disastrous, and, even if itwere less so, would have manypractical objections. A treeleft entirely to itself gener-ally develops in one of twodirections. It does not growupwards and assumes th
. A treatise on pruning forest and ornamental ionsmust disappear before more scientific and rationaltreatment. A glance at Fig. 1 shows the effects of bad prun-ing. Here the trunk of a Beech is representedmutilated, and in a conditionwhich might well justify thegeneral condemnation of prun-ing, if pruning was always fol-lowed by such results. A system of forest manage-ment which discards pruningis disastrous, and, even if itwere less so, would have manypractical objections. A treeleft entirely to itself gener-ally develops in one of twodirections. It does not growupwards and assumes the lowround form common to theapple-tree; the lower branchesgrow disproportionately largeand absorb too much sap,to the detriment of the top of the tree ; and theselong, heavy branches are often broken by the windor by snow and ice, leaving hideous stumps (Fig. 2).Trees of this form are very common; they gen-erally decay at the top before reaching maturity,and have little commercial value. On the otherhand, many vigorous trees grow disproportionately. Fig. 1. — Badly pruned Beech :its trunk covered with cavities ofdifferent depths and partly filledwith water. 8 TREE PRUNING. at the top; the lower branches die from insiifiScientnourishment, fall off, and leave, when large, baretreatiseonprunin00desc
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