Bulletin . leaf, or branchbuds and flower, or fruit concern of the grower ischiefly with the latter. Al-though the fruit bud is the fore-runner of fruit, many men intheir pruning do not take intoconsideration their presence orthe effect that the operationmay have upon them. No onecan be a good pruner who doesnot know the bearing habit ofthe various kinds of fruit treesand appreciate the principlesunderlying their formation. A tree in which there is nota fair supply of food in thebranches and twigs will not or-dinarily set many fruit lack of food material mayresult from too r
Bulletin . leaf, or branchbuds and flower, or fruit concern of the grower ischiefly with the latter. Al-though the fruit bud is the fore-runner of fruit, many men intheir pruning do not take intoconsideration their presence orthe effect that the operationmay have upon them. No onecan be a good pruner who doesnot know the bearing habit ofthe various kinds of fruit treesand appreciate the principlesunderlying their formation. A tree in which there is nota fair supply of food in thebranches and twigs will not or-dinarily set many fruit lack of food material mayresult from too rapid growthon the part of the tree or becauseenough food is not furnishedto the tree. two points are important and should be borne in mind by the pruner, because hecan, to a large extent, influence the action of the tree one way or theother. Pruning is not the only practise that will affect the formationof fruit buds but it is one of them. When a tree is growing rapidly, it is producing much wood and. Light lines show wood removed from apple inwhich too many branches had been left pre-viously. Dark portion shows what was left. many leaves. In the production of this wood and these leaves, it isusing up large quantities of plant food. As long as it uses this plantfood for wood and leaves, there is none left to be stored up in thebranches and twigs and, therefore, none to produce fruit buds. If aman, through lack of knowledge or over-enthusiasm, prunes a tree soseverely that it is forced into a strong, sappy, watersprouty growth hewill usually find that he has thrown it out of balance with the resultthat it may fail to bear well for the next several years. It is possiblealso to keep a young tree pruned so hard that the continual productionof the extra vigorous twigs causes a delay in the beginning of thebearing age. Too rapid wood growth is antagonistic to the. formationof fruit buds. Too vigorous growth can sometimes be corrected by the twigs and watersprouts wh
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