Stones may be cleared away until the advent of the New Year. Trees may be trimmed, nipped, and the dry twigs lopped off until the New Year. R. Joshua [T2] says: just as one may trim and snip in the Fifth year [to aid growth in the sixth] so may one perform this work in the sixth year [in preparation for the seventh]; but R. Simeon [T4] says: as long as I may legally tend the tree itself, so long may I lop off the branches thereof.
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