I f HORTICULTURE H This Department is Edited by Prof. R. S. Northrop, State Agri-H Agri-H cultural College. H SUMMER PRUNING FOR FRUIT. H Robt. S. Northrop. H The young apple and peach orchil orch-il ards which have been growing rapidly H the present season should get their m summer pruning if it has not already H been given. In case the orchard is m now bearing or is not old enough to m bear to advantage it is better to let M the pruning go, but where a .rapid m growth has been put out on trees four m or five years old or more a checking H of their growth by cutting 'back a few M inches from the ends of the long m shoots in mid-summer has a tondency M to cause fruit hud iormation which H should largely increase the fruit for H next season. B In the case of many young trees H which would have borne the present H yjcar except for frost it is quite H strongly recommended that such a fl pruning be given immediately, for it m is a well determined fact that such m pruning is necessary to throw rapjdly m growing trees into fruitfulncss.