. Complete farmer's guide. Agriculture; Farm life. [from old catalog]. 244 FUNDAMENTALS OF FARMING. Fig. 144. Pruned to direct growth. The growth will be in the direction talien by the topmost bud left when the branch is cut ofif, as this bud grows most rapidly. This being true, in what di- rection will each limb in the cut above grow ? to fruit better. It is a well-known fact that when trees are severely in- jured they tend to put their ener- gies at once into fruiting, as if the tree were trying to make sure of leaving a new generation in case of its death. The apple and the pear bear their
. Complete farmer's guide. Agriculture; Farm life. [from old catalog]. 244 FUNDAMENTALS OF FARMING. Fig. 144. Pruned to direct growth. The growth will be in the direction talien by the topmost bud left when the branch is cut ofif, as this bud grows most rapidly. This being true, in what di- rection will each limb in the cut above grow ? to fruit better. It is a well-known fact that when trees are severely in- jured they tend to put their ener- gies at once into fruiting, as if the tree were trying to make sure of leaving a new generation in case of its death. The apple and the pear bear their fruits upon short branches of the previous year's growth, csdled fruiting siJurs, which grow out from limbs that are one year or more old. The bear- ing shoots are not usually the long ones near the ends of the branches. In pruning care must be taken, there- fore, not to cut off too many of the short fruiting spurs. The peach bears on wood of the last sea- son's growth, but directly on the branches instead of on spurs. With the peach cut- ting back the long branches is necessary in order to limit the crop and prevent the tree's breaking. The Japanese plum fruits on both spurs and year-old wood, and may well be cut back similarly to the peach. The quince bears its fruit at the end of new shoots of the present season's growth, so that the pruning must be such as will stimulate new growth without going so far as to limit too greatly the Fig. 145. The right ® ® _, , - „ 7 , way to cut off the old crop. The grape also bears iruit upon the stem after the new , „ , , , . 1 1, budded branch has shoots of the present season, which usually got 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 Kyle, Edwin Jackson. [from old catalog]; Ellis, Alexander Caswell, 1871- [from old catalog] joint author. New Yor
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