Show rin ehing in A bulletin 0 the tennessee expert ment station says there Is a application of this law of growth pinching Is an old practice employee to maintain symmetrical development in young trees when a shoot length ens more rapidly than its fellows the tree is apt to grow one aided by pinching out the top of such a shoot its progress is stopped for a time and the other branches grow ou thus equalizing the parts of the crown oftentimes the same branch will re quire stopping several times before the others overtake it sf every time a bahoot Is pinched the first effect Is to cause buds immediately below to become more mature than would have happened had the branch been lured pinching then not only per ailts other shoots to overtake the pinched one but has an important in upon the future growth of the shoot thus stopped the operation per the buds below and making them more certain to form branches than they aou d otherwise it be comes important to remove or enczur age these growth according to their effect in the symmetry of the crown |