THESE DIAGRAMS show correct and incorrect cuts in pruning. (A) Incorrect—Cut made too flat and close to the bud. (B) Incorrect—This cut slopes too much and also has left too little wood behind the bud. (C) Correct—Approximate 45 degrees slope away from the bud which has been left about a —The cut is made too far from the bud and thus erect—The cut slopes towards the bud. (E) Incorrect quarter of an inch from the cut end. (D) Incorncourages possible die-back.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30471, 19 June 1964, Page 6
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81THESE DIAGRAMS show correct and incorrect cuts in pruning. (A) Incorrect—Cut made too flat and close to the bud. (B) Incorrect—This cut slopes too much and also has left too little wood behind the bud. (C) Correct—Approximate 45 degrees slope away from the bud which has been left about a —The cut is made too far from the bud and thus erect—The cut slopes towards the bud. (E) Incorrect quarter of an inch from the cut end. (D) Incorncourages possible die-back. Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30471, 19 June 1964, Page 6
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