. The miniature fruit garden and modern orchard : or, The culture of pyramidal and bush fruit trees : with instructions for root-pruning, etc. Fruit-culture. PEAR TREES AS BUSHES ON THE QUINCE STOCK 21 difiiise in their growtlt, and, with snmmer pinching, soon form nice prolific bushes, of which the following figure (fig. 5), from nature, will give some idea. The pruning of these bushes is a simple matter. As they are likely to throw out many shoots, and so fill up the centre of the bush, thus impeding the circulation of. Fig. 5 light and air; I go over the branches in June and thin out those
. The miniature fruit garden and modern orchard : or, The culture of pyramidal and bush fruit trees : with instructions for root-pruning, etc. Fruit-culture. PEAR TREES AS BUSHES ON THE QUINCE STOCK 21 difiiise in their growtlt, and, with snmmer pinching, soon form nice prolific bushes, of which the following figure (fig. 5), from nature, will give some idea. The pruning of these bushes is a simple matter. As they are likely to throw out many shoots, and so fill up the centre of the bush, thus impeding the circulation of. Fig. 5 light and air; I go over the branches in June and thin out those which are growing too thickly, the final pruning being left until the end of September. If the bushes are fruitful the pruning should be deferred until the fruit is gathered, and the summer thinning only 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 Rivers, Thomas, 1798-1877; Rivers, T. Francis. London ; New York : Longmans, Green, and Co.
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