. The pruning-book; a monograph of the pruning and training of plants as applied to American conditions. h side 240 SOME SPECIFIC ADVICE roots cut back,* as in Fig*. 158. It is impossibleto cut Fig. 158 to the form of Fig. 157, becausethe root did not grow in the same way. n This is true of most trees, especially ifI l)udded stock; they cannot be cut ac-cording to directions. Peach trees lendP themselves most readily to this form ;also cutting-grown pear trees (such asare grown in the South). The theoryis that the new roots arise from theunder surfaces of roots which are cutas in Fig. 157, and
. The pruning-book; a monograph of the pruning and training of plants as applied to American conditions. h side 240 SOME SPECIFIC ADVICE roots cut back,* as in Fig*. 158. It is impossibleto cut Fig. 158 to the form of Fig. 157, becausethe root did not grow in the same way. n This is true of most trees, especially ifI l)udded stock; they cannot be cut ac-cording to directions. Peach trees lendP themselves most readily to this form ;also cutting-grown pear trees (such asare grown in the South). The theoryis that the new roots arise from theunder surfaces of roots which are cutas in Fig. 157, and then grow directlydownwards. Fig. 159 is Brunks modelof a peach tree properly trimmed, show-ing both root and top, the whole beingonly fifteen inches long. Fig. 160 showsthe results Avhich Mr. Stringfellow securesfrom stub-roots and long roots. In 1896, experiments onthe stub-root pruning werebegun at Cornell, and theseare now reported. Thisaccount of the tests is in-serted more for the purposeof affording concrete in-stances with which to discussthe statements advanced insupport of stub-root prun-. ir)9. Brunksmodel. *Hold the tree top down, and cut all roots back to about au tuch,sloping the cuts so that wheu the tree is set the cut surface is dowu STUB-ROOT PRUNING 241 ing than to make a record of an all the trees were trimmed in the String-fellow fashion, for other problems than merestnb-root pruning were in mind. Besides thefour hundred trees here reported, the roots oftwo hundred apple trees were cut in different
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