. Barry's Fruit garden. Fruit-culture. [from old catalog]. 234 PRUNING. pinched will start and grow again. In such cases another pinching must be performed within an inch of the previ- ous one. As a gen- eral thing, this will be sufficient; but if not, a third must be given in the same way; for if they be allowed to extend into wood branches, they will require knife-pruning, and create confusion among all parts of the tree. A very general error in con- ducting trees of this kind, and in- deed all others, is to allow the branches to be too close to each other, so that when they come to bear, th
. Barry's Fruit garden. Fruit-culture. [from old catalog]. 234 PRUNING. pinched will start and grow again. In such cases another pinching must be performed within an inch of the previ- ous one. As a gen- eral thing, this will be sufficient; but if not, a third must be given in the same way; for if they be allowed to extend into wood branches, they will require knife-pruning, and create confusion among all parts of the tree. A very general error in con- ducting trees of this kind, and in- deed all others, is to allow the branches to be too close to each other, so that when they come to bear, the wood, foli- age, and fruit, on the interior, are so ex- cluded from the air and light that they all suffer. The fruit is imperfect, and the spurs become feeble, and gradually per- ish. The tree has now two branched sections, each from. Pear-tree four years old, three times pruned; cross-lines indicate the fourth pruning; will now be in a bearinir state. twelve inches to two feet, as the case may be, and with. 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 Barry, Patrick, 1816-1890. [from old catalog]. New York, Orange Judd company
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