. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Figure 7—Thirteenth Year remains protruding from the main stalk. When these wires are put in carefully and in a neat manner it is there for a lifetime, and it matters not what kind of a crotch is at the base of tree, it is absolutely the strongest tree that can be constructed. Instead of a center-stalk tree with one main upright about six or eight inches in diameter, you have from four to eight uprights from three to four inches in diameter, and all of them arranged in a circular position forming a circle from three feet to four feet in diam- eter. This wire syst
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Figure 7—Thirteenth Year remains protruding from the main stalk. When these wires are put in carefully and in a neat manner it is there for a lifetime, and it matters not what kind of a crotch is at the base of tree, it is absolutely the strongest tree that can be constructed. Instead of a center-stalk tree with one main upright about six or eight inches in diameter, you have from four to eight uprights from three to four inches in diameter, and all of them arranged in a circular position forming a circle from three feet to four feet in diam- eter. This wire system should not be put in limbs smaller than one inch in diameter, and in order to get these wires as high as possible I have adopted a temporary support (see Fig- ure 8) to be used for a few years until trees are taller and uprights larger. If trees are early bearing varieties, or you are in a district where sleet and snow weight your trees during the winter, it is then advisable to add a temporary support to these trees which are too small to receive the permanent wire supports. Figure 8 shows a cross section of the main upright branches. Figure 8—Cross Section Showing Temporary Wire Support a. Main upright stalk; b. Two-ply soft spun hemp or manila 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 Hood River, Or. , Better fruit publishing company
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