. A complete work on the pruning of fruit trees .. Fruit-culture; Pruning. 16 Tuning. Wlien planting a .young fruit-tree, of no matter what variety,' always remove the centre leader. Choose well-growm yearling trees, from a reliable nurseryman, and see that they are free from all disease. The main stem should be short—not more than IS inches high. Select three well-placed arms starting from different portions of the main stem, at a wide angle if possible, and remove all others. Shorten the three arms back to three or four buds, pruning to an outside Ijud or to a bud which will throw tlie shoot
. A complete work on the pruning of fruit trees .. Fruit-culture; Pruning. 16 Tuning. Wlien planting a .young fruit-tree, of no matter what variety,' always remove the centre leader. Choose well-growm yearling trees, from a reliable nurseryman, and see that they are free from all disease. The main stem should be short—not more than IS inches high. Select three well-placed arms starting from different portions of the main stem, at a wide angle if possible, and remove all others. Shorten the three arms back to three or four buds, pruning to an outside Ijud or to a bud which will throw tlie shoot in tlie recjuired direction, the object being to form a wide, stout base of main arms to build the future tree upon ; these main arms jointing at different jiarts round the trunk give a very strong Fig. 1. Planting the tree. Figure 1 shows liow the tree should be planted ; Figure 2 shows the correct depth to plant, and Figure 3 shows the correct way to prune the young tree. Upon these the sulj-arms and leaders are built in the form of an inverted cone, with no centre leader. The tree must be kept well balanced on all sides. The centre hollow, with a double row of leaders evenly placed all round, must show no crowding anywhere. Figure 4 represents (" a " and " b ") two young apples unpruned, and (" c " and " d ") two young peaches unprvmed. Figure .5 shows tliese same trees Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Moody, James F. Perth, Fred. Wm. Simpson, Government printer
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