. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Figure 6—Representing a three-year-old tree after having been pruned. Xotice the stocky appearance of all the Umbs. limbs cut out during the simimer, while no cutting back was done until the fol- lowing winter. The winter pruning in this tree, as shown in Figure 10, merely consists of cutting back to buds all the limbs left. ^Yhen a tree gets to this age the cutting back should be stopped and only such of the limbs as grow stronger than the rest should be cut back; also such trees as might have too thin a top should be cut back suflicient to make them stocky and
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Figure 6—Representing a three-year-old tree after having been pruned. Xotice the stocky appearance of all the Umbs. limbs cut out during the simimer, while no cutting back was done until the fol- lowing winter. The winter pruning in this tree, as shown in Figure 10, merely consists of cutting back to buds all the limbs left. ^Yhen a tree gets to this age the cutting back should be stopped and only such of the limbs as grow stronger than the rest should be cut back; also such trees as might have too thin a top should be cut back suflicient to make them stocky and to rebranch sufficiently to make the nec- essary amount of bearing wood. The pruning of a young tree should be done in such a way that when a tree gets to bearing age there are no. Figure 5—Representing a three-year-old tree before being 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 Hood River, Or. , Better fruit publishing company
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