. The pruning-book; a monograph of the pruning and training of plants as applied to American conditions. 181. Well-formed pie cherry. wanted, and it is well not to trim the tree tooheavily, so as to reduce its leaf-bearing capacity,and to set it into too strong growth of water-sprouts. A Longfield apple tree is shown in Fig. variety has a weeping habit, and the effortmust be to encourage the upper limbs and toremove the lower or drooping ones. How this 258 SOME SPECIFIC ADVICE is done is shown in Fig. 178. The tree wasstarted too low in the first place, and it has abad crotch; and late
. The pruning-book; a monograph of the pruning and training of plants as applied to American conditions. 181. Well-formed pie cherry. wanted, and it is well not to trim the tree tooheavily, so as to reduce its leaf-bearing capacity,and to set it into too strong growth of water-sprouts. A Longfield apple tree is shown in Fig. variety has a weeping habit, and the effortmust be to encourage the upper limbs and toremove the lower or drooping ones. How this 258 SOME SPECIFIC ADVICE is done is shown in Fig. 178. The tree wasstarted too low in the first place, and it has abad crotch; and later on, the large fork onthe right was entirely removed. It then had. 182. Apricot in need of prunin,^. PRUNING OF YOUNG TREES 259
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