. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. PLANTING, PRUNINQ, AND TBAINING FRUIT-TREES. 201 bearing-spurs to the extremity of the branches. Little more need be said on the subject, except that all unproductive wood, crowded spra3's, and decayed branches, that cross each other, should be cut out, the tree kept open in the centre, and the open cup-like form rigorously maintained. These remarks apply chiefly to apples, pears, and other trees which bear their fruit on spvu-s ; where their habit is diflferent, it will b
. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. PLANTING, PRUNINQ, AND TBAINING FRUIT-TREES. 201 bearing-spurs to the extremity of the branches. Little more need be said on the subject, except that all unproductive wood, crowded spra3's, and decayed branches, that cross each other, should be cut out, the tree kept open in the centre, and the open cup-like form rigorously maintained. These remarks apply chiefly to apples, pears, and other trees which bear their fruit on spvu-s ; where their habit is diflferent, it will be noticed in treating of them specifically. These spurs will in time become long and scrubby, with many branches, as in fig. 6, whore we see a spur with many branches getting further and further away from the main branch. To bring it back to its proper position, cut away, neatly, the upper shoot at a, and the side-shoot at&, cutting out, also, the central shoot, when the small bud, c, will push out and form blossom-buds the following year. Fig. 6. 515. When a tree is very vigorous, the buds will break strongly and run into wood too strong to form blossom-buds. The remedy in this case is to break the young shoot near the third bud from the main branch, leaving the broken part hanging down. The time for this operation is about the middle of March. The broken part, while it droops, nevertheless draws up a portion of the wood-sap. The following winter, when the buds are turned into blossom-buds and become fruitful, the hanging shoot should be neatly primed away, when a fruitful bearing-spur will be fonned. 516. Root-pruning I have already adverted to : it is performed by laying bare the roots three feet from the stem of the tree ; then with a sharp axe, or chisel and mallet, cut through a portion of the strongest roots, according to the requirements of the tree. If the tree is extremely vigorous, without producing fruit, two-thirds of the stronger roots cut through in this mann
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