. The principles of fruit-growing, with applications to practice. Fruit-culture. The Aim in Pruning 231. FlQ. 71. Fruit-spur forming at the side. begins the very year in which the plants are put into the ground. Trees alternately neglected and heavily pruned are kept in a condition of upset that is Ukely to interfere with the best satisfaction in fruit- growing. The aim in pruning is to keep the top open, to remove superfluous and interfering parts, to maintain a size and shape that admits of easy spraying and fruit- gathering and other labor, to ehminate diseases and injured branches, to enco
. The principles of fruit-growing, with applications to practice. Fruit-culture. The Aim in Pruning 231. FlQ. 71. Fruit-spur forming at the side. begins the very year in which the plants are put into the ground. Trees alternately neglected and heavily pruned are kept in a condition of upset that is Ukely to interfere with the best satisfaction in fruit- growing. The aim in pruning is to keep the top open, to remove superfluous and interfering parts, to maintain a size and shape that admits of easy spraying and fruit- gathering and other labor, to ehminate diseases and injured branches, to encourage the fruit-bearing wood. How to accomplish these results is to be determined by practice. A good pruner has "an eye" for the work, and he xmdertakes it care- fully as an artisan skilled in the opera- tion. Pruning is not carpentering. It is easy to overdo pruning. It is not primarily the removal of wood, but the work- ing out of a purpose. Pruning is mostly for Fig. 72. Shoot grown too long for probable training in yOUUg fruit-bearing. There will be an alternation of i << fruit-bearing on this spur. treeS, and aS trie. 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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