Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1892 — Pruning Young Tress. [ARTICLE]

Pruning Young Tress.

The future shape, productiveness and value of an orchard depends mainly on the way it is pruned while young. It requires knowlouge of the habit of growth of different varieties to know how to prune them to advantage. A little pruning while the tree issm ill sets it to growing In the right shape, and avoids the nodd of sawing off lurge limbs inter, which cun never be done without inflicting wounds likely to destroy the vitality of the tree. It is in pruning, more even than in anything else, that a little done at the right time saves the necessity for doing Bauch wore afterwards. - |\