. Bulletin . mediatevicinity of the cuts and does not greatly affect the growth on otherbranches that are not pruned. Consequently, pruning can beused to dwarf a shoot and it can also be used to encourage newgrowth where it is desired. 4 Result of Heading Back.—When a young branch is left with-out any cutting, it normally continues its main growth from the terminal bud with a littlebranching near that that same shoot is cutback several buds immedi-ately below the cut areforced into active growth,and develop into a number ofbranches (see Fig, 1). Thebud just below the cut willcontin
. Bulletin . mediatevicinity of the cuts and does not greatly affect the growth on otherbranches that are not pruned. Consequently, pruning can beused to dwarf a shoot and it can also be used to encourage newgrowth where it is desired. 4 Result of Heading Back.—When a young branch is left with-out any cutting, it normally continues its main growth from the terminal bud with a littlebranching near that that same shoot is cutback several buds immedi-ately below the cut areforced into active growth,and develop into a number ofbranches (see Fig, 1). Thebud just below the cut willcontinue in much the samedirection as the originalbranch was growing. Heading-back cutting is ofvalue in pruning the youngtree to enable the grower tostart the head where he de-sires. It is also of value onpeach trees that have madea very vigorous growth. A cutting back may dwarf,but at the same time it tendsto place the growth whereit is desired. The practiceis sometimes resorted to asa help in shaping the Fig. 1.—Result of a heading-back cut at a whichforced buds just below the cut into vegetativebranches. Cuts of this kind are desirable onlywhere many branches are needed. Such cuts de-velop thick trees with much unproductive wood. Cutting to Lateral Branches.—Lowering or shortening a limbby cutting to a lateral branch does not seem to start out quite asno8agribulle21ohiouoft
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