Horticulture, a text book for high schools and normals, including plant propagation; . Fig. 106.—Good and bad pruning close when removing large limbs. Cut fromthe under side first to prevent splitting downthe Fig. 107.—Gano apples, before and after thinning. It takes courage to thin fruit, but thesize is increased enough to pay. (Ohio Station, Newark.) The objects of thinning are (1) to prevent the spread of rot orother disease of the fruit; (2) to increase the size and quality of the IRRIGATION IN DRY CLIMATES 183 fruit left on the trees; (3) to induce the tree to bear a
Horticulture, a text book for high schools and normals, including plant propagation; . Fig. 106.—Good and bad pruning close when removing large limbs. Cut fromthe under side first to prevent splitting downthe Fig. 107.—Gano apples, before and after thinning. It takes courage to thin fruit, but thesize is increased enough to pay. (Ohio Station, Newark.) The objects of thinning are (1) to prevent the spread of rot orother disease of the fruit; (2) to increase the size and quality of the IRRIGATION IN DRY CLIMATES 183 fruit left on the trees; (3) to induce the tree to bear a good cropannually instead of every other year; (4) to save work at harvesttime in picking and sorting low grade fruit. Dwarf apple trees are neither a fad nor a novelty. But theyare not usually considered commercially profitable in any variety of apple can be made to grow well on dwarfingstocks as Paradise or quince. The trees will then come tobearing much younger (Fig. 108). They may be planted as close
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