Show TREE WITH CROOKED TRUNK scheme outlined for straightening up bose bosc and other pear varieties i always deformed young trees with crooked trunks either from wind pressure or from distortion in the nursery may be straightened easily as follows defore before the sap starts in the spring make about three parallel slits lengthwise of the trunk on the conen concaved con caved ved side of the trunk this will arrest the flow of sap at that point causing the bark barb to ficken fick cn this in turn will produce 9 im 5 simple device for preventing splitting of trees heavily laden with arul during strong wind storms a gnarled spot in the wood like a wedge exerting its force at right ana agles to the trunk straightening out 1 the most obstinate deformities r but this must be done while the tree Is young or the bark wedge cannot exert sufficient force to bend them tha crooked trunk this scheme Is par ticul arly useful in straightening up the bose bosc and other pear trees which ellich are for some unknown reason almost al ways deformed by nature I 1 |