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To help young lovers of fruit trees, I show how a crown with a central leader is formed in the first year of its development. Usually four stronger and located at about 90 degrees from each other shoots are chosen for future skeletal branches. A strong, vertically growing branch located above all others is chosen as the central leader. The remaining shoots are either removed immediately or are more strongly retired and removed at the end of the season (or the beginning of the next). The main idea is to direct nutrients to the branches from which the future crown will be built.