Show SUMMER PRUNING or OF DWARF TREES summer I doue done piu rely bus the most beneficial bene Ocial effect espe lally as regards cordon and espalier or other trained trees the branches should be kept at 12 inches distance apart and the leading growths shortened to insure a proper breaking of tile buds throughout the whole length of the branches which of course results in side shoots says the gardeners chronicle the side bide shoots should be gone over during tile the season of early growth when they have made six to eight leaves and pinched back with the she linger finger and thumbnail to five leaves the shoots will push growth from one or two mo of the upper buds and literals laterals late ia gerals rals should be pinched back to two leaves it if the trees are very vigorous or the autumn wet a third pinching may be needed the immediate result Is to keep the side shoots within bounds the leading or extension shoot will be clean and vigorous and the growths from the buds lower down will be well nourished at the autumn or winter pruning of these side shoots four buds are left on each if the tree be young and vigorous or three will suffice on old trees or those of modern vig vigor 0 r the reason for I leaving four buds Is that two must make some growth while the two lower ones make only a little wood and a few leaves practically spurs to develop into fruit buds the following year the reason for pinching side shoots Is to transform them into spurs instead of allowing them to grow freely and then cut them hard bard back to two buds causing them to push fresh growth from one or both while giving a check to the tree by removing so much foliage at one time the result is a thicket of shoots for the close pruning in winter to a couple of buds buda means two strong from each tile one then shortened and the object of having bearing spurs near to tile branch Is frustrated the tiling thing Is to get tile lie spur and bloom buds formed on atheni for as soon as a blossom bud has developed on a spur tile the growth extending beyond it may it he removed so as to make the tree neat ea t and prevent overcrowding over crowding of the full foll age no buds besand the bloom bud are necessary to draw tile the sap into it the spur being provided with its own foliage and albo the hie truss of fruit that fol follows lovAs while a blossom bud cannot be forced into wood growth by close p pruning the foregoing remarks apply to such fruits as are grown upon the hie spur system apples pears an and A plums |