. The American fruit culturist. y be given, they may be muchimproved by being converted to pasture for sheep, addingoccasionally a top-tressing of manure in autumn. These ani-mals will serve in part to enrich the land, keep the grassgrazed short, and pick up the prematurely fallen fruit, in-fested with worms or insects. The amount of cultivation or top-dressing to be given tosuch orchards must be determined by the annual growth ofthe shoots. If less than a foot in length, more vigor must beimparted to them. If more than a foot and a half, they arequite thrifty enough. Priming.—The mode of trea
. The American fruit culturist. y be given, they may be muchimproved by being converted to pasture for sheep, addingoccasionally a top-tressing of manure in autumn. These ani-mals will serve in part to enrich the land, keep the grassgrazed short, and pick up the prematurely fallen fruit, in-fested with worms or insects. The amount of cultivation or top-dressing to be given tosuch orchards must be determined by the annual growth ofthe shoots. If less than a foot in length, more vigor must beimparted to them. If more than a foot and a half, they arequite thrifty enough. Priming.—The mode of treating large trees has been alreadyadverted to in the chap-ter on pruning. Thereare some owners of or-chards who most errone-ously suppose that whentrees become old, heavypruning will restoretheir vigor in the ab-sence of good cultiva-tion ; while the correctmode of treatment isvery moderate and grad-ual pruning, in connec-tion with the best of cul-tivation. The forego-ing correct portraits of actually existing specimens of bad. Fig. 348.—Illustration of Bad Pruning ofOld Trees.
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