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Show PRUNING FOR CHERRY TREES Work Tends to Improve Color of Fruit and Adds to Appearance of Tree Trim Every Year. Many people hold to the theory that a cherry tree should never be touched while the others extremists say they should be pruned as vigorously as apple ap-ple trees. The most sensible course lies between the two. Pruning the cherry tree does not have so marked an effect in enlarging its fruit as it does on apple or the pear, but it does tend both to enhance the color of the crop as well as to improve im-prove the tree's appearance. The bright, full-sized, well-colored cherries ' are the ones that sell and the cherries that are not too thick on the tree and not shut out of sunlight by too dense folage are those which attain the necessary nec-essary color and size. Did you never notice that the big, fine, highly colored cherries are those on the topmost branches or away out on the ends of long limbs, or somewhere some-where where the air and the sunshine get to them? Well, in this there is v?F VlVv V' . Well-Pruned Cherry Trees. something more than a mere aggra- , vating perversity of nature and a disposition dis-position to put the best fruit out of reach. , Fine cherries must have air circulation circula-tion and sunlight. These better results' re-sults' are to be obtained to a considerable consider-able extent by shaping the tree and by properly trimming it every year. Do not wait until there are great big limbs to saw off. Cut out the smaller branches growing where they are not wanted. Clean out a lot of the little twigs and branches which will have little if any fruit on them, anyway, and which will only exclude the sun and air. |