. Elliott's fruit book;. Fruit-culture; Fruit. [from old catalog]. 266 THE PEACH. turnip should ever be grown, and that pays best to be turned under by a very shallow plowing of, say, two inches deep. On rich, deep prairie soils, it is best not to stir the ground after midsummer. Pruning.—The fruit being borne only on wood of the preceding year, one of the great objects in pruning, is to keep all parts of the tree furnished with a regular and constant succession of annual bearing shoots. P. Barry, in his " Fruit Garden," has the following, so cor- rectly descriptive of the mode, that
. Elliott's fruit book;. Fruit-culture; Fruit. [from old catalog]. 266 THE PEACH. turnip should ever be grown, and that pays best to be turned under by a very shallow plowing of, say, two inches deep. On rich, deep prairie soils, it is best not to stir the ground after midsummer. Pruning.—The fruit being borne only on wood of the preceding year, one of the great objects in pruning, is to keep all parts of the tree furnished with a regular and constant succession of annual bearing shoots. P. Barry, in his " Fruit Garden," has the following, so cor- rectly descriptive of the mode, that we adopt it, together with a cut illustrative of buds, on which C. D. E. are fruit buds, F. G. II. leaf buds, I. double buds, C. triple buds; the two side buds being fruit buds, and the centre one a leaf bud. By referring to the branch, it will be seen that it is furnished with a certain number of wood buds and fruit buds. At the base, there are always one or more wood buds. Now, if that shoot were not pruned, all the fruit buds on it would produce fruit,—one, two, or three of the wood buds at the top would make new shoots; these would necessarily be very weak, in consequence of the number of fruit below them. At the end of the season there would be a long, vacant space, entirely destitute of a young shoot or a living bud. This is the way that the inte- rior and lower parts of treesbecome so soon degarnished. But when that shoot is shortened, we will say one half, the sap is retained in its lower parts, one half of the fruit buds are removed, and the consequence is, that large and fine fruits are obtained from those remaining: young vigorous shoots are produced from the lower buds to bear next year, and take the place of those which have already borne. In this way regular uniform crops of large and fine fruit are ob- tained, and a constant succes- sion of young shoots is kept up. To form the head of a stand- ard Peach Tree. — We will suppose it the intention to form a st
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