Fruit trees may be pruned from now till March in the north.
When worked at the top of a stem formed of the stock, the growth from the graft or bud must be pruned in a similar way.
It may be pruned or clipped into any shape.
If a piece of bark and cortex are torn off, the occlusion takes longer, because the tissues have to creep over the exposed area of wood; and the same is true of a transverse cut severing the branch, as may be seen in any properly pruned tree.
The others are generally pruned so as to combine a moderate supply of young wood with a greater or less number of fruit spurs.