. The effect of pruning in the training of young olive trees . Fig. 5.—The same Ascolano tree as shown in figure 4, after pruning. Illustrates system A after pruning in 1929. The skirt of small branches on the lower part of the tree was thinned out lightly at each annual pruning. The growth on the scaffold branches of the Manzanillo was thinned out annually in order to lighten the weight of crop and foliage and reduce the tendency to droop. This was done also with Sevillano and Ascolano in cases where they showed the same tendency. The thinning was done by removing laterals or portions of late
. The effect of pruning in the training of young olive trees . Fig. 5.—The same Ascolano tree as shown in figure 4, after pruning. Illustrates system A after pruning in 1929. The skirt of small branches on the lower part of the tree was thinned out lightly at each annual pruning. The growth on the scaffold branches of the Manzanillo was thinned out annually in order to lighten the weight of crop and foliage and reduce the tendency to droop. This was done also with Sevillano and Ascolano in cases where they showed the same tendency. The thinning was done by removing laterals or portions of laterals. No thinning was done on the scaffold branches of the Mission until the fifth winter. At the fifth winter pruning, most of the surplus branches which had
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