. Bulletin . romthe roots every year. Pruning is one way to correct this situationand to keep peach trees in bounds. If weather permits, the peach tree of bearing age seldom failsto make enough buds for a heavy crop. In fact, it commonly pro-duces many more than are desired, so that some pruning is ad-visable for the purpose of thinning the crop. Therefore, the mainproblems in pruning this fruit tree are to thin the crop and to keepthe tree within bounds. Almost any kind of pruning, if it is severeenough, will take care of the latter problem and the amount of woodremoved can usually be regulat
. Bulletin . romthe roots every year. Pruning is one way to correct this situationand to keep peach trees in bounds. If weather permits, the peach tree of bearing age seldom failsto make enough buds for a heavy crop. In fact, it commonly pro-duces many more than are desired, so that some pruning is ad-visable for the purpose of thinning the crop. Therefore, the mainproblems in pruning this fruit tree are to thin the crop and to keepthe tree within bounds. Almost any kind of pruning, if it is severeenough, will take care of the latter problem and the amount of woodremoved can usually be regulated by the amount of thinning re-quired for the fruit crop. When and How Severely.—The peach tree should be prunedlightly or heavily, depending upon the fruit prospects. Usuallythinning-out cuts can be delayed late enough in the season till thedanger of killing the buds is past. Then the trees should be givena thorough thinning-out pruning, followed by any heading backdeemed necessary, as described later. 30. Fig. 20.—Young bearing peach tree before pruning. should receive aliberal applicationof nitrogen fer-tilizers, to bringit through thecoming season tobest advantage. Pruning to Se-cure Most Favor-able Location ofFruiting Wood.— Thin out the woodas seems neces-sary to let lightand air in to allparts of the , thesecuts remove woodin the center andtop, so that fruit-ing wood low In sectionswhere fruit suf-fers often fromspring frosts allheading back canbe delayed tillblossom time, oreven till after thefruit is set. Then,if the crop is lost,the tree may beheavily cut backin order to lowerthe fruiting , if thewinter is seriousenough to injurethe wood of trunkand large scaf-fold branches, thetree should not bepruned at all, and
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