. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1663. Elberta Peach (X nearly K). leaves have fallen, the twin fruit-buds, with the leaf- bud made between, present the appearance shown in Fig. 1073. Not always do the two buds develop: one of them may be aborted or injured so that a single flower- bud and a leaf-bud stand together. These flower-buds are borne
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1663. Elberta Peach (X nearly K). leaves have fallen, the twin fruit-buds, with the leaf- bud made between, present the appearance shown in Fig. 1073. Not always do the two buds develop: one of them may be aborted or injured so that a single flower- bud and a leaf-bud stand together. These flower-buds are borne on both the strong terminal shoots and on the weak growths in the interior of the tree top. The fruits in the interior of the top are for the most part poor; therefore it is good practice to remove the weak shoots on the inside of the top, thereby thinning the fruit and allowing the energy of the tree to go to the development of the fruit nearer the outside. Any sys- tem of pruning, therefore, which removes the annual growth thins the fruit. Heading-back the tree also may be a thinning process. The fruit-buds are borne some distance below the tips of the shoots, however, and un- less the heading-in process is somewhat severe, there is little result-in thinning the fruit. TTiinning the Frtdt. —There is very general neglect in thinning the fruit. It should be a rule that no two Peaches should stand closer on the same branch than five or six inches. No work of the orchard pays better than this thinning, either in the price which the remain- ing produce brings in the market or in the vital energy which is saved to the tree. Peach trees that are regn- larlj'- thinned should bear every year, barring injuries from winter or spring frosts. Growers seem to forget that this fruit must all be picked sooner or later, and. W 1664. Crawford Peach (X 1-5) that the work is more easily done in June or July than in September. The thinning should be delayed until the fruit is the size of the e
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