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Not Strictly Observed
Despite the lip service given to this type of training today, very few, even among commercial growers, actually make a strict effort to produce the perfect specimen apple tree of this type. In the first place, they grow generous with nature and so allow an indefinite number of branches to develop. In case no leader is developed, their trees may bear a surprising resemblance to the old “open head0 which was supposedly superseded by the more recent “modified leader.’*
With “open head” pruning, all primary scaffolds supposedly make equal growth. Actually, the shift from one form of pruning to the other has been more theoretical than real. If the open head method had confined Itself to three or four scaffolds instead of the six or more then prevalent, it might have been quite as successful as the more recent form. The open head acquired a had reputation because, in those days, the growers “spared the twig and spoiled the tree,” which, like Topsy, “just growed.”
Recently, another type of train, ing termed “clover leaf” or “wedge” has caught the eye of those interested in innovations. This method of pruning entails the removal of branches in four wedge-shaped openings, which permit the workman to walk erect to the center of the tree. Thus the tree is divided into four separate segments, each having one primary scaffold, well spaced around the tree.
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