Pruning that leaves large limbs branching

Pruning that leaves large limbs branching

Pruning that leaves large limbs branching

Pruning that leaves large limbs branching, as in Fig. 74, a, is not to be recommended, since the limbs when loaded with fruit or when beaten by heavy winds are liable to break. Decay is apt to set in at the point of breakage. The entrance of decay-fungi through some such wound or through a tiny crevice at such a crotch is the beginning of the end of many a fruitful tree.

Fig. 79. Three-Year-Old Tree cut back

Fig. 80. Three-Year-Old Tree cut back
Refuses to Heal—Heals promptly