The little pruning book; an intimate guide to the surer growing of better fruits and flowers . FIG. a large limb: result ofwrong method, attempting to do itwith one cut. FIG. a large limb: correctmethod, first cut at A; second cutat B; then saw off stub at C-D. While in some specific case there may be reasons forselecting an inside bud, this holds as a general rule. Fourth—Cut close up to and parallel with the mainbranch, trunk or stem. In removing a branch from atree or side shoots from shrubs or plants, the leaving ofa stub, even if it is a short one, delays the healing
The little pruning book; an intimate guide to the surer growing of better fruits and flowers . FIG. a large limb: result ofwrong method, attempting to do itwith one cut. FIG. a large limb: correctmethod, first cut at A; second cutat B; then saw off stub at C-D. While in some specific case there may be reasons forselecting an inside bud, this holds as a general rule. Fourth—Cut close up to and parallel with the mainbranch, trunk or stem. In removing a branch from atree or side shoots from shrubs or plants, the leaving ofa stub, even if it is a short one, delays the healing ormakes it possible for disease germs to enter, thus pro-viding for future trouble. Sometimes it is necessary to remove quite largebranches. This should never be done, if it can beavoided, but with old trees that have been neglected,and in the case of limbs broken by ice storms, or throughover-bearing, and from similar causes, there is nothingelse to do. In such cases, the way that is the safest and 1? in the end the most convenient, is to remove the branch,first, lopping it off with an
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