. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 36 BETTER FRUIT February, ig20 ern Illinois, advantage was taken of the opportunity ofTcrcd at this time to con- duct investigations with the view of de- termining a satisfactory way of hand- ling such trees. Experimental work was confined to the Elberta ; Results of Experiments. In the spring of 1918 three sets of pruning experiments were started on different plots of the injured trees, the pruning being done from March 2(ith to March 28th, when the leaf buds had started. The methods of pruning were as follows: Row 1, Pruned moderately; previou
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 36 BETTER FRUIT February, ig20 ern Illinois, advantage was taken of the opportunity ofTcrcd at this time to con- duct investigations with the view of de- termining a satisfactory way of hand- ling such trees. Experimental work was confined to the Elberta ; Results of Experiments. In the spring of 1918 three sets of pruning experiments were started on different plots of the injured trees, the pruning being done from March 2(ith to March 28th, when the leaf buds had started. The methods of pruning were as follows: Row 1, Pruned moderately; previous year's growth clipped approximately one-half. Row 2. Dehorned, the one and two-year-old wood removed. Row 3. One-year-old wood removed. Row* 4. Check. L^npruned. On April 1, Mr. Gunderson notes that one pound of nitrate of soda was ap- plied broadcast to three of the trees in each row for the purpose of studying G. L. Davenport Grower and Shipper MOSIER, OREGON MAIN OFFICE 147 Front Street, PORTLAND, OREGON the effects of fertilizer on the recovery of fruit trees from winter-injury. The trees were examined frequently during the spring and summer and the fact is noted that the foliage of the trees which had received the nitrate of soda was heavier and of a darker green color than that of the untreated trees. "This dif- ference," the writer says, "was much more apparent however in the check and the moderately pruned trees than in those dehorned. This was probably due to the fact that the heavy pruning of peach trees usilally results of itself in the stimulation of heavy wood growth and foliage, especially when the trees are in vigorous ; On October 30, Mr. Gunderson made an examination in regard to these ex- periments which he records as follows: "Observations were made October 30 on the relative amount of fruit-bud formation on the trees in the different rows. The trees in Row 1, whose one- year-old wood had been clipped, car- ried the larges
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