. Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket. Fruit-culture. CULTIVATION. FERTILIZATION. THINNING 57 fruits themselves are largely water. And that brings us to the important subject of Thinning Fruits. — If we can annually reduce the number of seeds (or pits) which a tree endeavors to grow, we remove a great vital drain upon the strength of peaches too thick on this both tree and soil. We save eighteen-inch branch fertilizer, and we save tree vitality. Incidentally, we accomplish equally important secondary results. By removing, say, one-half of the baby fruit on a
. Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket. Fruit-culture. CULTIVATION. FERTILIZATION. THINNING 57 fruits themselves are largely water. And that brings us to the important subject of Thinning Fruits. — If we can annually reduce the number of seeds (or pits) which a tree endeavors to grow, we remove a great vital drain upon the strength of peaches too thick on this both tree and soil. We save eighteen-inch branch fertilizer, and we save tree vitality. Incidentally, we accomplish equally important secondary results. By removing, say, one-half of the baby fruit on a tree, the remainder is enabled to grow to larger and more profitable size ; and next season the tree, not having exhausted itself the previous year, is in proper con- dition to bear another full crop. In brief, systematic thinning increases the value of the crop, and helps to insure full crops every year. The time to do the work is after the June drop is about over and before the seeds or pits have hardened. Often it is necessary to pull off, by hand, almost two- thirds of the fruit on a heavily set tree ; yet, strange as it may seem to those who have not tried it, the remaining one-third, at pick- ing time, will fill almost as many bushels as the fruit of a similar tree unthinned. Which would be most profit- able, ten bushels of "medi- ums " or eight or nine bushels of "extra large"? It fre- quently pays to hire help to SAME BRANCH PROPERLY . ..,.,.. thinned do the 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 Biggle, Jacob. Philadelphia : W. Atkinson Co.
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