The California fruits and how to grow them; . erable number ofleaders, all starting from near the point where the tree was headedat planting. Such leaders crowd each other at the point of emer-gence from the stem, and when laden with fruit, sway outward andbreak out at this point. A vastly stronger tree is secured by start-ing but four or five branches from the low trunk and letting thememerge from different sides of the stem, and at different each main attachment to the stem has abundant room, and thewood enlarges symmetrically and solidly. The expansion of the topis attained by t
The California fruits and how to grow them; . erable number ofleaders, all starting from near the point where the tree was headedat planting. Such leaders crowd each other at the point of emer-gence from the stem, and when laden with fruit, sway outward andbreak out at this point. A vastly stronger tree is secured by start-ing but four or five branches from the low trunk and letting thememerge from different sides of the stem, and at different each main attachment to the stem has abundant room, and thewood enlarges symmetrically and solidly. The expansion of the topis attained by the branching which follows the cutting back of suc-ceeding years. Starting branches from nearly the same level on thestem has been the occasion of great losses of overladen trees, andquite a considerable recourse to strengthening up weak trees byrunning bolts through from side to side at the points where experi-ence shows breakage is likely to occur. In this respect it is nowclearly seen that the practice which was widely adopted a few years.
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