. Apple culture [microform]. Apples; Pommes; Pommes; Apples. ^Jf.,^' '5ki?-""'<'' J8 and crop are less likely to suffer from violent winds, and in northern localities the trees with short trunks and low spreading branches are much less subject to injury from sunscald, the most serious tree trouble of the north. At the Algoma Fruit Experiment StaUon It has been found advisable to start the head not more than a couple of feet from the ground, while in the more favored sections the custom is to have at least four feet of trunk. This is the height at which the head is usually started
. Apple culture [microform]. Apples; Pommes; Pommes; Apples. ^Jf.,^' '5ki?-""'<'' J8 and crop are less likely to suffer from violent winds, and in northern localities the trees with short trunks and low spreading branches are much less subject to injury from sunscald, the most serious tree trouble of the north. At the Algoma Fruit Experiment StaUon It has been found advisable to start the head not more than a couple of feet from the ground, while in the more favored sections the custom is to have at least four feet of trunk. This is the height at which the head is usually started on two .or three year old trees as obtained from the nursery, and for this reason It IS better for the northern planter to get two year old, rather than three or four year old, trees, so that he can start the head at whatever height he wishes. In this connection it may be stated that tree trunks do not lengthen, except by pruning off the lower branches, so tha at whatever distance from the ground the lower branches are left, that will be the permanent length of the trunk. Three branches are enough to leave to form the main limbs or frame- work of the tree top. These should be evenly spaced around the trunk to give a well balanced and symmetrical top, and they should also be placed on the trunk so as to distribute evenly the weight of the top and , avoid bad crotches which are liable to split down with weight of crop. It is particularly important at this stage that great care should be taken to train the young tree irt the way it should go, and much can be done in training and directing growth by heading back to buds pointing in the direction we wish the new branch to take. Cropping and Interplanting. In a newly-planted orchard the trees occupy but a small portion of the land, and they cannot be expected to give any returns for at least five or six years. It is advisable, therefore, that some other crop be grown in the orchard which will pay for the labor spent upon it till the
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