. The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs. ed, which might have beenused for the increase of the tree and the production of will take place, if the cut is effectual, as represented inFIG. 4, above the last eye A, alone necessary to the branchof renewal. Among the very numerous eyes, with which the branchesof the peach tree are covered at the moment of pruning, thaton which the gardeners attention should be constantly fixed,is the inferior eye placed near the heel of each branch forfruit. If this branch receives a pruning too
. The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs. ed, which might have beenused for the increase of the tree and the production of will take place, if the cut is effectual, as represented inFIG. 4, above the last eye A, alone necessary to the branchof renewal. Among the very numerous eyes, with which the branchesof the peach tree are covered at the moment of pruning, thaton which the gardeners attention should be constantly fixed,is the inferior eye placed near the heel of each branch forfruit. If this branch receives a pruning too long in order toobtain an abundant product, its lower eye will not start at JANUARY. 25 all; the branch will have nothing to replace it the followingyear ; it will leave on tlie espalier a void space, often verydifficult to fill up. Nevertheless, certain varieties of thepeach give their fruit only at tlie upper extremity of thefruit branch, which is necessarily pruned long, in order tohave any fruit. In this case, they suppress, below the fniiibuds, AAA (fig. 5), all the wood buds (B B B) except. PRUNING FOR THE FORMATION OF WOOD. the bud C, which is reserved for replacing the fruit suppression of the eyes hardly opened, is called blinding(aveu^le merit). Fig. 6 shows the state of the branch after the pruning,and the suppression of the blinded eyes. By this means, thisbranch, despite of its long pruning, has sufficient sap left forthe eye of the heel to become a good branch of replacement. We cannot too often repeat, that if we would have anespalier garnished witli well bearing peach trees, durable andproductive, we must never cut the branches for fruit very
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