. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Figure 2. The t n Figure 1 after pruning. Figure 1. A tree like this should not be cut to a whip. The scaffold limbs are already nicely and sappy on the lower part of the tree where the scaffold should be started. When a peach tree is pruned to a whip at planting time, it often happens that three or four limbs start on one side of the tree, making a very poor head. In other cases the whip dies down nearly to the ground and sprouts up from near the bud. This risk is avoided when a scaffold can be picked from the limbs on the tree as it comes from the nursery. Some
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Figure 2. The t n Figure 1 after pruning. Figure 1. A tree like this should not be cut to a whip. The scaffold limbs are already nicely and sappy on the lower part of the tree where the scaffold should be started. When a peach tree is pruned to a whip at planting time, it often happens that three or four limbs start on one side of the tree, making a very poor head. In other cases the whip dies down nearly to the ground and sprouts up from near the bud. This risk is avoided when a scaffold can be picked from the limbs on the tree as it comes from the nursery. Some very successful growers start the heads of their young trees six inches above the ground. This makes a low head and produces the largest number of branches 40 to 50 inches in length the first season but it does not seem to make a noticeably stronger scaffold. It is much more difficult to cultivate up close to a tree headed only six inches high than it is one headed 24 or 30 inches high. Many growers are train- ing their trees higher than formerly as they are finding that they can keep the top of the tree plenty low and at the same time are able to disk up close to this type of tree. It does not seem advisable to cut all peach whips to the same height at planting. It will be found on observa- tion that there are very definite areas on the peach whip where the buds are much better developed. By cutting just above such an area of buds the chances are much greater that a satis- factory head will be formed the first season. Another factor having a bear- ing on the height at which peach whips should be cut is the diameter of the trres. If small stocks, below % inch, they will made a more satisfactory growth the first year if cut back more severely than trees of the larger grades. M. A. Blake of the New Jersey Ex- perimental Station found that the most numerous buds on a peach whip were first 36 to 42 inches above the ground followed in order by the 42 to 48 and the 0 to 6 inch space
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