Show Young Apple Trees Are ! Rather Hard to Train Young apple trees are more difficult : to train than are young peach trees. ! Not all the limbs needed for the i 'framework of the tree can be secured ; the first year. A central leader must be left until the proper number of framework limbs can be secured spaced over four to six feet of height Seven or eight limbs is all that an apple ap-ple tree should have. A tree with this number will be easy to keep pruned an.! it will be a simple matter to have plenty of bearing wood with little effort (in certain varieties such as Yellow Transparent It will be very he'.pful In securing a well shaped tree and tree that tiegins hearing at an early age If the framework limbs are spread. This spreading can be most easily ac-conipllslud ac-conipllslud by cutting notches In the etuis ot lath sawed into various lengths and then Inserting these laths between two framework limbs In such a way that both limbs wi'.l be spread out This changes the natural growth habit of the Yellow Transparent Transpar-ent completely. Without some such artificial regulation the limbs of the trees of this variety go straight up In the air. The trees of this type are all very slow coming into bearing unless something of this nature Is done to them. |