Show TREES this is the month for pruning fruit fruci trees iii in passing about tile tiie country we see many persons have been at fit this business as early as march and april which are undoubtedly the two worst months in the whole year for this operation in fit all such cases the wound will turn black before bedore the year comes round and in ili all hurom humin clity the bark for some distance be lowth lowthe ft wound will dla dia alid come oft off within two years and tile the trees become sickly and if large ai limbs M bs have been cut off the tree will begin to die a limb at a time till the whole tree will perish the prop proper r pru pruning ning of fruit trees is a very nice operation ft should always be done with a saw and the wound made as smooth as possible and then covered with gum dissolved in a cohol hol hoi and applied with a pain painters teis brush cutting ON off large limbs should be avoided as much alpos as possible with every large limb goes a large root and a section through the entire body of the tree and often disease is introduced into the tree that ultimately proves fatal if trees have neglected whilo while young it is best to avoid to too 0 M much uch tr trimming I 1 1 m ining edke off ff only what is ab absolutely sol soi necessary to protect the tree from injury or remove M 0 ve dead limbs the time to do pruning as it should be and with the least injury to trees Is when they are young then they can be given any form we plesse without endangering the health of or the atiee tree do not trim them up too high so as to give them long naked trunks encourage the limbs to grow as low as possible and not be in the lie way get wide spreading tops and as large as possible there is no danger of having too large a atop top on trees if it healthy for the roots are always in pro proportion portio to the top and the larger the top tile tiie more fruit it will be able to produce look well to grafts those which have been set iset two years should be care carefully fully rully thinned out and ail al cros limbs taken off it will give five the trees a better form and hasten their coming into bearing after the year keep 0 off fr all su suckers ekers unless the top is too small in this case encourage suckers to grow out in the right place piare to be grafted oxford me democrat june 22 |