Show no HEADING BACK FRUIT TREES necessity of cutting out diseased and useless branches recognized by fruit grower trees are better with a little pruning annually than with an occasional severe pruning some people head back their trees quite freely each year while others who mho believe in unrestricted growth do not everyone recognizes the necessity of cutting out dead diseased and useless branches and those which rub or interfere with each other heavy pruning tends to produce wood old trees are rejuvenated by severe cutting back weak growing ra 6 A 4 1 41 1 tree headed back trees should be pruned more closely than strong growers it a trees energies are largely devoted to g rowing growing wood the quality and quantity of fruit oust suiter suffer winter pruning stimulates wood growth and summer pruning diverts the energies to fruit bearing do the winter pruning while the tree Is dormant and the summer pruning in june |