. California fruits and how to grow them. Fruit culture. Old Lemon Trees 324 California Fruits : off or cleanly cut away. Having secured about the right branching in about the right places no strong sprouts should be allowed, and the tree should be encouraged to make smaller laterals, which will be the bearing wood. It must be admitted, however, that this rational plan of restricting wood growth and directing the energies of the tree to fruit has in some cases been pursued too far and the tree has resented repression by diminished thrift. The pruner must allow freer growth of shoot to secure b
. California fruits and how to grow them. Fruit culture. Old Lemon Trees 324 California Fruits : off or cleanly cut away. Having secured about the right branching in about the right places no strong sprouts should be allowed, and the tree should be encouraged to make smaller laterals, which will be the bearing wood. It must be admitted, however, that this rational plan of restricting wood growth and directing the energies of the tree to fruit has in some cases been pursued too far and the tree has resented repression by diminished thrift. The pruner must allow freer growth of shoot to secure better foliage. according to its position and vigor—all these must be borne in mind by the lemon pruner. It must also be remembered that the work must be resolutely continued and the tree always prevented from wild growth and kept down to bearing on the smaller twigs, which are promoted and retained for that purpose. The building-down process described for the young orange is easily applicable to the lemon. Old lemon trees which have been allowed to grow away into a long, rangy form and. Lemon tree with medium amount of under-pruning. The pruning of the lemon as of other trees must always be pursued with judgment rather that by recipe. When the adequate growth of bearing wood within reach is borne in mind it appears that the pruning of the lemon in- volves many of the considerations urged in Chapter XII for deciduous fruits; the method of making a strong, short trunk, the ar- rangement of branches, the prevention of long growths, the encouragment of low, bearing twigs, the thinning of twigs to prevent the tree from becoming too dense, the points to be observed in cutting back, not by shearing but by treating each branch to bear fruit too high for profit, can be brought down to good form by severe cutting back and after-treatment of the new shoots, keeping the smaller horizontal growths and cutting out cleanly the strong upright shoots, or cutting them back if more branches are
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