. Bulletin . Fig. 17.—Same tree shown in Fig. 16 after pruning. Dead and diseasedbranches and water sprouts have been removed. Tall branches have beenshortened to desirable laterals. A general thinning-out pruning has leftvigorous fruiting wood as evenly distributed as possible. (U. S. Dept. Agr.) After a crowded orchard has been intelligently thinned theremaining trees can be pruned. They often produce more andbetter fruit than could have been secured had all the treesbeen left. 27 Pruning Peach Trees Not of Bearing Age Trees to Plant.—One-year-old peach trees are the best to tree
. Bulletin . Fig. 17.—Same tree shown in Fig. 16 after pruning. Dead and diseasedbranches and water sprouts have been removed. Tall branches have beenshortened to desirable laterals. A general thinning-out pruning has leftvigorous fruiting wood as evenly distributed as possible. (U. S. Dept. Agr.) After a crowded orchard has been intelligently thinned theremaining trees can be pruned. They often produce more andbetter fruit than could have been secured had all the treesbeen left. 27 Pruning Peach Trees Not of Bearing Age Trees to Plant.—One-year-old peach trees are the best to tree has a strong main shoot with several side branches. Pruning Young Growing Peach Trees.—After planting, thetree is headed at from 15 to 20 inches; 15 inches is a good (a) (h) Fig. 18.— (a) One-year-old peach tree after planting, (h) Same tree after pruning. The heavyside branch was removed. The tree was cut back to about 20 inches. Four well-distributed sidebranches were left and cut back to short stubs to assist in developing a symmetrical open head. The presence of good side branches should not materially influencethe height of heading. If these branches occur a little below thedesired height of the head three to five can be used, well spacedaround the trunk, and cut back to about 3 inches. Under thesebranches as spurs helps to develop a symmetrical head. (Compare(a) and (h) in Fig. 18.) 28 In the spring at the beginning of the second year select threeto five strong well placed limbs for the scaffold branches. Cut offall other branches and remove the center branch to form a vasetype open center tree (see Fig. 19 (b) ). If the growth is veryvigorous the tree must be carefully thinned to induce branchinglow down and to make the basis for a strong
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