. The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . l-develop-ed leaves as ata a Fig. 1. Theweak leaves, bbb,are not taken intoaccount. Thispinching has theeffect of causing. early, before the buds have commenced to form the shoot withers as in Fig. when the pinching is performed at the proper time the shoot ceases to lengthen, and the lower pair of leaves remains near the base. At the winter pruning the shoots have the appearance repre-sented by Fig. 8. It sometimes happens that, inspite of pinching, the laterals continue to lengthen. In this case a cut is made with the point of the k
. The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . l-develop-ed leaves as ata a Fig. 1. Theweak leaves, bbb,are not taken intoaccount. Thispinching has theeffect of causing. early, before the buds have commenced to form the shoot withers as in Fig. when the pinching is performed at the proper time the shoot ceases to lengthen, and the lower pair of leaves remains near the base. At the winter pruning the shoots have the appearance repre-sented by Fig. 8. It sometimes happens that, inspite of pinching, the laterals continue to lengthen. In this case a cut is made with the point of the knife on one side of the base, as at a, Fig. 9, about half an inch in length. This cut stops the growth, and a few days after the lateral is pinched, and the eyes are formed in the axils of the two lower leaves, as at d. All the laterals having been pinched for the firsttime, on several of them oneor two generations of youngshoots will be produced.•IJ These are pinched above theleaf nearest to their base, asalready explained, and thisoperation will. and pinchings becomes entirely composed of blossombuds, as represented Fig. 10. If left they so com-pletely weaken the spurthat it is apt to die. Toprevent this all the flowerbuds are cut off, and aninoision made as at A,Fig. 11. Finally, close pinching-is not practised duringthe first year after thetree is planted. Such appears to be theplan now advocated byM. Dubreuil under the name of pincement court,which we prefer to call spur pruning. That themethod ha s been un- ^ r> successful in severalplaces he admits,but he thinks thatthis has been owingto want of skill in the operator. His own experience tells him that it possesses the following advantages. 1. It saves labour by getting rid of the necessity of summer and winter nailing. 2. It saves half the cost of trellis work (the French train their Peach trees to wooden or wire trellis). 3. Winter and summer pruning be- Fig- io. comes much more simple and more readily understood b
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