. The principles of fruit-growing, with applications to practice. Fruit-culture. 312 The Principles of Fruit-growing when frozen, is frost,â^probably settles in a ring or belt near the top of the fruit or midway down it. The exact position and conformation of this deposit of dew are, of course, determined by the shape, posi- tion and exposure ofthefruit. Fig. 119 shows the frost- zones on young apples. This in- jured, corky tissue has the power of increasing itself by the extension of the abnormal cells, so that the zone is likely to widen with the growth of the Fig. 120. Rusty frost-zone on a
. The principles of fruit-growing, with applications to practice. Fruit-culture. 312 The Principles of Fruit-growing when frozen, is frost,â^probably settles in a ring or belt near the top of the fruit or midway down it. The exact position and conformation of this deposit of dew are, of course, determined by the shape, posi- tion and exposure ofthefruit. Fig. 119 shows the frost- zones on young apples. This in- jured, corky tissue has the power of increasing itself by the extension of the abnormal cells, so that the zone is likely to widen with the growth of the Fig. 120. Rusty frost-zone on a full-grown apple. i?â^ â j. Tv/r â j. ^, « _ fruits, with the rusty frost marks still conspicuous, are seen in Figs. 120 and 121. In some cases, the growth of tissue in the injured zone seems to be slow, resulting in a constriction of the fruit at that point. Among the most serious results of very late frosts in the North are injuries to vineyards. Fig. 122 shows the shoots of a grape-vine as injured by a freeze in the middle of May. In treating frozen vines, like that shown in the illustration, it must first be remembered that the injured parts are of no further use to the plants, and they are very likely to weaken the plant by causing it to lose much of its moisture. The rational procedure, therefore, is to strip off all the frozen shoots soon after the disaster, allowing the energies of the plant to divert themselves to the pro-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York : Macmillan
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