. The encyclopedia of practical horticulture; a reference system of commercial horticulture, covering the practical and scientific phases of horticulture, with special reference to fruits and vegetables;. Gardening; Fruit-culture; Vegetable gardening. Fig. 2. The Cambium Growing Over a Properly Made Wound. bium layer begins to grow over them than those made in the spring just before the tree starts to growing. While trees can and may be pruned any time during their dormant period—that is during the fall, winter and spring—the preferable time is in the spring, shortly before growth be- gins. Fa
. The encyclopedia of practical horticulture; a reference system of commercial horticulture, covering the practical and scientific phases of horticulture, with special reference to fruits and vegetables;. Gardening; Fruit-culture; Vegetable gardening. Fig. 2. The Cambium Growing Over a Properly Made Wound. bium layer begins to grow over them than those made in the spring just before the tree starts to growing. While trees can and may be pruned any time during their dormant period—that is during the fall, winter and spring—the preferable time is in the spring, shortly before growth be- gins. Fabian Garcia, Santa Fe, N. M. A Vermont Viewpoint The successful growth of a vigorous and well developed tree is largely dependent upon rational methods of pruning. The pruning a tree receives during its first few years determines the shape of its ma- ture head. The young tree at the time of setting should be severely pruned. As a rule the roots are cut back to six or eight inches and the top either to a whip, or, if it has been started at the right height in the nursery, from three to five of the best placed branches are selected for the scaffold limbs or framework of the head and these are cut back to correspond with the roots. Fall planted trees should not be pruned back as severely, since the wood is likely to suffer from drying out and winter freezing. Frequently when the top is light, pruning is deferred until spring, when practically the same cutting back is given as to the spring set trees. When the trees are pruned to a whip it is for the purpose of establishing a lower head or for securing better placed scaffold limbs. The limbs left for the framework of the tree should not be located opposite to each other as limbs thus placed would have a tendency to form a weak crotch. The advocates of the low headed apple tree seem to be in the ascendancy over tRose who prefer the high head. This type of tree is called for because of the necessity of fighting insect and fungus
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