The California fruits and how to grow them; a manual of methods which have yielded greatest success, with the lists of varieties best adapted to the different districts of the state . ce on the lever are four heavy tines bent in a semi-circle. The saw-horse is filled with brush, the lever is then pulled down and fastened bya ratchet brake, the brush is forced into a small, compact bundle, andwhen bound with wire makes a bundle easily handled by the fireman. THINNING FRUIT Intimately connected with the pruning of bearing trees, is the thin-ning of the fruit or proper spacing of the individual f
The California fruits and how to grow them; a manual of methods which have yielded greatest success, with the lists of varieties best adapted to the different districts of the state . ce on the lever are four heavy tines bent in a semi-circle. The saw-horse is filled with brush, the lever is then pulled down and fastened bya ratchet brake, the brush is forced into a small, compact bundle, andwhen bound with wire makes a bundle easily handled by the fireman. THINNING FRUIT Intimately connected with the pruning of bearing trees, is the thin-ning of the fruit or proper spacing of the individual fruits so that eachshall have space and sap to allow its attainment of satisfactory market-able size. It has been fully demonstrated that no demand is profitablewhich will be content with the undersized fruit from an overladen superior price for good-sized fruit for all uses, not excluding dry-ing, is unquestionable; the total weight secured may be variable as be-tween thinned and unthinned trees, but it can be accepted as an in-disputable fact that any increase of weight there may be upon an un-thinned tree will not be nearly an equivalent for the loss in value. It is. 138 THINNING FRUIT 139 the conclusion of our lar^^est and most successful growers that, large asis the expenditure required for careful and systematic thinning of fruit,it is the most directly profitable outlay which they have to make fororchard maintenance. Objects in view in Fruit Thinning.—But thinning fruit hasobjects beyond the value of the visible crop which it makes overburdened tree can discharge the two-fold summer duty ofevery cultivated fruit-bearing tree, which is to perfect this seasonsfruit and lay a good strong foundation for next years bearing. Tf thetree, after fruit gathering, has not the strong, vigorous foliage tocomplete the formation of fruit buds for the following year, there willeither be a lack of bloom or a show of bloom unfit to set, and the treewill work for it
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