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Show HOW TO PRUNE FRUIT TREES Branches Wanted as Leading Shooti Should Not Be Touched Weaker Ones May Be Pinched Back. In pruning fruit trees, attention has to be given to the manner in which the particular kind bears fruit, writes an expert In an exchange. The cherry and the pear both bear their fruit on short spurs, and in trimming, there- fore, the effort should be to produce a large quantity of healthy fruit spurs. Summer pruning does this admirably. admir-ably. The branches that we want to remain re-main as leading shoots should not be touched; but the "weaker ones may be pinched back about mid-summer, one foot or two-thirds of their growth. This will induce the swelling of a number of buds that will produce flowers instead of branches, and in this way fruit spurs can be obtained on comparatively young trees; . but with such kinds as the grape vine, the fruit is borne on the branches of last year's growth, so the effort should be to throw all the vigor possible to those growing branches that we want to bear fruit the next season. To do this we pinch back the shoots that we do not want to extend; or even pull these weak shoots out altogether. alto-gether. A little pruning is then necessary nec-essary in the winter; .to shorten back these strong, bearing canes, or to prune out altogether the weaker ones that we check by pinching back during the growing season. |