Rich County Reaper | 1929-04-19 | Page 2 | Immature Twigs Are Too Weak as Scaffold Limbs

immature twigs are too weak hs as scaffold limbs one year old trees of some kinds such as the apple and fig have the form of a straight whip in which ca case e it Is only necessary to remove the top at the desired point however trees like the peach apricot and plum usually have several small side branches below the point where the top Is removed which must be considered si ol dered the mistake to Is sometimes made of cutting the longer of such branches back four to five inches from alie e trunk in an effort to force them into scaffold limbs or of removing them entirely close to the trunk in the first case tuch fauch immature twigs are too weak to form the basis for scaffold limbs though one or two may be sufficiently heavy for this purpose this number alone would mackean make an unbalanced tree in the second ease case if the twigs are cut close to the trunk basal buds are destroyed which may be needed later for the development of scaffold limbs