The California fruits and how to grow them; a manual of methods which have yielded greatest success, with the lists of varieties best adapted to the different districts of the state . also, according to locality and the first summer the young plants will need occasional water-ing in some situations; in others, merely mulching, or keeping thesurface finely stirred, will suffice. Olive trees are planted at difterent distances, but the ruling inter-vals are twenty to twenty-five feet. This will allow the trees to beara number of years before they crowd each other; and then removi
The California fruits and how to grow them; a manual of methods which have yielded greatest success, with the lists of varieties best adapted to the different districts of the state . also, according to locality and the first summer the young plants will need occasional water-ing in some situations; in others, merely mulching, or keeping thesurface finely stirred, will suffice. Olive trees are planted at difterent distances, but the ruling inter-vals are twenty to twenty-five feet. This will allow the trees to beara number of years before they crowd each other; and then removingalternative trees gives ample distance for future growth. But itis clearly the part of wisdom to hold the olive to a low growth in orderthat the fruit may be cheaply gathered, and this may be done byproper pruning. PRUNING THE OLIVE PRUNING THE OLIVE 407 Pruning policies as insisted upon in Chapter XII, have directbearing upon the commercial growth of the olive. The developmentof the tree according to principles there laid down is practicable anddesirable. After proper low form is secured, satisfactory bearing willdepend upon regular prunning to secure new bearing shoots and. Bearing Olive tree before pruning. thinning to prevent the tree from becoming too dense and bushy. Theolive bears upon wood which grew the preceding year, and upon noother. It is just as important, then, to secure a good supply of suchshoots as it is to secure new bearing wood for the peach, and the waysto do it, by cutting back and thinning out, are much the same. Keepthe tree from running out of reach of a step-ladder; prevent it frombecoming a brush-heap, for both these acts are essential to the growthof good bearing wood, low down. At the same time it must be remem-bered that too severe cutting-back forces the growth of branches whichform only wood buds and fruiting is postponed. The secret is toprune enough to induce plenty of new growth but not so much exces-sive, non-bearing, new growth results. T
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