. The principles of fruit-growing. Fruit-culture. Root-pruning. 279 hesitation in doing so, for the roots are deep enough to escape the plow if the plowman is ordinarily careful about the trees. It is not necessarily a misfortune to cut the smaller roots of plants with the plow, providing only a few are cut in any year. In other words, it is no doubt safer to sever a good many roots a. Fig. 41. A broken grape root sending out branches. half inch, or sometimes even an inch, in diameter, than not to plow the orchard at all. The severed roots generally send out numerous branches near their ends,
. The principles of fruit-growing. Fruit-culture. Root-pruning. 279 hesitation in doing so, for the roots are deep enough to escape the plow if the plowman is ordinarily careful about the trees. It is not necessarily a misfortune to cut the smaller roots of plants with the plow, providing only a few are cut in any year. In other words, it is no doubt safer to sever a good many roots a. Fig. 41. A broken grape root sending out branches. half inch, or sometimes even an inch, in diameter, than not to plow the orchard at all. The severed roots generally send out numerous branches near their ends, and these branches increase the forag- ing power of the root in soil which is normally laid under small tribute. Pigs. 41 and 42 are drawn from actual specimens of roots which were broken by the plow. It would seem as if the absorbing. 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 Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York, Macmillan
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