Archive image from page 203 of Culture of the citrus in. Culture of the citrus in California cultureofcitrusi00cali Year: 1900 ( 196 STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. Deprive the feeble parts of fruit, and make the vigorous parts bear all they will. Bend the strong parts down, put the weak erect. Tie and arrange limbs as you want them. Make the tree your servant. The greater the number of erect limbs in a tree, the sooner will its vitality be exhausted; it lives too fast. Fruit grown on short spurs is less liable to injury. The horizontal type of pruning gives a definite plan for the life and habi
Archive image from page 203 of Culture of the citrus in. Culture of the citrus in California cultureofcitrusi00cali Year: 1900 ( 196 STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. Deprive the feeble parts of fruit, and make the vigorous parts bear all they will. Bend the strong parts down, put the weak erect. Tie and arrange limbs as you want them. Make the tree your servant. The greater the number of erect limbs in a tree, the sooner will its vitality be exhausted; it lives too fast. Fruit grown on short spurs is less liable to injury. The horizontal type of pruning gives a definite plan for the life and habit of your tree, which is immensely superior to all others. Lay a horizontal superstructure, and you build your tree strongly. It is important that the man who plans the form of the tree should follow its training thereafter. Do not deliver it over to the accidental haggler who does not understand your plan, and has none of his own. Snipping is not trimming. There is but little loss of fruit, or time, in changing the form of the tree by the horizontal method of pruning; the tree immediately begins a fruitful career. itMrniMauamerTK'.- Tree pruned by the so-called ' Semi-Baronio System.' SEMl-BARONIO SYSTEM. As is often the case, there are always many who believe they can improve upon whatever method may be used, as in this instance. Several orchards have been treated by what is called
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