. The pruning-book; a monograph of the pruning and training of plants as applied to American conditions. 157. Stringfellows 158. The wrong ideal sometimes not. Its success depends on local andincidental conditions. It would be as true to saythat because many people find the pyramidaltraining of dwarf pears to be useful, thereforeit is necessarily best everywhere and for allspecies and varieties. The accompanying pictures, from Stringfellow sNew Horticulture, show the method of thisstub-root pruning. Fig. 157 is the correct form,—cut back just below the collar, and just underthe first
. The pruning-book; a monograph of the pruning and training of plants as applied to American conditions. 157. Stringfellows 158. The wrong ideal sometimes not. Its success depends on local andincidental conditions. It would be as true to saythat because many people find the pyramidaltraining of dwarf pears to be useful, thereforeit is necessarily best everywhere and for allspecies and varieties. The accompanying pictures, from Stringfellow sNew Horticulture, show the method of thisstub-root pruning. Fig. 157 is the correct form,—cut back just below the collar, and just underthe first good side roots. We should not leaveany length of the main or tap-root, with side 240 SOME SPECIFIC ADVICE roots cut back,* as in Fig*. 158. It is impossibleto cut Fig. 158 to the form of Fig. 157, becausethe root did not grow in the same way. n This is true of most trees, especially ifI l)udded stock; they cannot be cut ac-cording to directions. Peach trees lendP themselves most readily to this form ;also cutting-grown pear trees (such asare grown in the South). The theoryis that the new roots arise from theunder surfaces o
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