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Show SUMMER PRUNING OF TREES Cannot Profitably Be Done on Old, Stunted, Dying Trees They Need Rejuvenation. If the tree has a dense top, open up the center to permit sunlight and air to enter. Thin out the sides by removing from one-tenth to one-fourth, of the branches, always cutting back Apple Cluster showing appies at correct cor-rect stage for second or apple worm spraying. Young fruit standing up with calyx lobes wide open ready to receive maximum dose of poison. to a limb and never leaving a long stub to die or throw cut a big crop of sprouts. Summer pruning cannot be profitably practiced- on old, stunted, dying trees. They need rejuvenation, which comes with winter pruning, but may be profitably practiced upon old, thrifty, shy-bearing trees. Large limbs can be removed at this, time just as safely as at any other season of the year, only it is not advisable ad-visable to. remove too much of tha top at once. Where great quantities of wood must be removed it is better to distribute its removal over a period of from two to three years, rather i than entirely unbalance the tree's growth. |