Show LOW HEADED TR TREES ES HANDY ANDY FOR ORCHA ORCHARD DI Plant trees but one year old You Youcan ran can head hend them as os low as os yon desire and In these days s 's of spraying we must have low headed trees and low heads are better In many respects The stems stem are tIre soon shaded and protected from they do n t blow over O so o badly and In sleet storms In winter the ground catches the limbs before the they can cnn break Thc They are so easily harvested that many large are now planting only this kind The illustration shows how small a n tree f j can be planted and how lowly pruned t tc I The first pruning of the apple should I be lie done dona when the tree Is one oue year eur olt old Cut bath bade to within two t or two and ond one half feet teet of the ground The young oung tree will then throw out small shoots from the ground up When these are two or three Inches lon long all ull should be rubbed off except from five to six of those near the top which arc are left to form the Ule head of the tree The sec see second second ond and pruning consists In cutting these back bade to about twelve Inches Two year old trees purchased ed from the Ule nursery are ure usually headed ba back k the first year and come with these first side shoots In such cases the they should hould be shortened as above stated The third year ear the new shoots which are ure left to form the main head heat of the tree should be short- short tenet back to about 16 Inches At tills this time It Is also necessary to remove some sohie of the side shoots In order to keep the growth from becoming too thick Pruning Pr the fourth season Is similar to the third The shape of the tre trees s depends largely on the pruning which IS 14 given the first four years ears so the work should be carefully done clone After After After Af Af- ter the fourth year there there- Is not much need peed to shorten back the main branches unless one has grown much longer than the rest In such cases caseR In order to preserve the shape of the tree the they should be made mude as fiS nearly even as possible All the pruning after this consists mainly In keeping the tree thinned out and also dead and inter interfering fering branches removed loter-I loter Ii i I If f 4 Y f if i n 1 ii tw v id tk e. e I M. M 1 w NyM ru w il PRACTICAL PLAN FOR LAYING LAVING OUT ORCHARD |