Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form . ew exposed branches. Cutout all dead wood as soon as it is discovered. If twobranches rub together so as to injure one another, theweaker should be cut away. If one branch rests onthe top of another, one should be removed. Headback and thin out the top rather than cut off the lowerbranches, so as to bring the fruit as lowas possible, on account of thinning,spraying, and harvesting. Neverremove entire side branches if it canbe avoided. If it must be done, cutas shown in Fig. I; thus the
Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form . ew exposed branches. Cutout all dead wood as soon as it is discovered. If twobranches rub together so as to injure one another, theweaker should be cut away. If one branch rests onthe top of another, one should be removed. Headback and thin out the top rather than cut off the lowerbranches, so as to bring the fruit as lowas possible, on account of thinning,spraying, and harvesting. Neverremove entire side branches if it canbe avoided. If it must be done, cutas shown in Fig. I; thus the tree isPRUNING A SIDE triiuiued up for horse cultivation with-BRANCH Q^^ sacrificing the whole of main limb. All cuts should be left as smooth aspossible ; and all wounds more than one-half inch in diameter ought to be coveredwith a coat of thick linseed oil paint,—to keep out dampness and prevent rotwhile Nature is healing the cut. - Never leave a stub. Cut close, yetnot too close. (vSee Fig. II.) fig. ii Cut out suckers on a tree whenever 2TJwIoN°cryou see them. Also, watch for and cut no. i, right.
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