. The fruit garden. Fruit-culture; Fruit trees. I02 THE FRUIT GARDEN. Disbudded Branch after Fruit is "Set" (2) Disbudded shoots ; {a) growth to attract the sap to the fruit, stopped; {d) successional bearing shoot to take place in following year of that now fruiting. remove the soil of the border to within at least 3 or 4 feet of the tree stem. In doing this many roots will be found, and must be carefully preserved. After the old soil has been cleared away and the drainage made perfect, the border may be partly re-filled with new soil, mixed as at first recommended. Among the useful
. The fruit garden. Fruit-culture; Fruit trees. I02 THE FRUIT GARDEN. Disbudded Branch after Fruit is "Set" (2) Disbudded shoots ; {a) growth to attract the sap to the fruit, stopped; {d) successional bearing shoot to take place in following year of that now fruiting. remove the soil of the border to within at least 3 or 4 feet of the tree stem. In doing this many roots will be found, and must be carefully preserved. After the old soil has been cleared away and the drainage made perfect, the border may be partly re-filled with new soil, mixed as at first recommended. Among the useful fibrous roots there will be found many long, bare, and useless ones. These must be cut back half their length that young roots may spring from them. The new border formed should extend only about 2 feet beyond the roots. This will provide sufficient new soil for at least one year. Fresh soil can be added afterwards as required. A good mulching of horse manure and loam should be given to the tree or trees thus treated as soon as growth is active, and if the work has been carefully executed no great sacrifice of the crop will result. Either before or after a severe root operation of this sort has been performed it is advisable to prune the branches rather severely, cutting out altogether any long, partly barren shoots, and shorten- ing others which are likely to break freely, thereby helping to furnish the tree again with fruitful and more compact branches. A tree thus treated must be frequently syringed as soon as growth commences, and for some weeks afterwards. Various Methods of Training.—Of the various systems of training and pruning the peach tree under glass which are occasionally practised, I have so far only mentioned two, viz., with the curved front trellis and trellis on the back wall, and with one trellis covering the whole of the roof from base to summit. Another method of training the peach is upon a double upright trellis arranged transversely in the house. I bel
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