. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. lo6 PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF PRUNING. plasters. Thick white lead paint is the best single material, however. Pruning-saws are required for this work, which should always be kept sharp and in good condition; those made with coarse teeth on one edge, and slightly finer on the other, will Fig. 149.—Two-edge Pruning Fig. 150.—Tree-Pruner. be found most handy (Fig. 149)- For trimming branches not over one inch in diameter on the more inaccessible p
. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. lo6 PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF PRUNING. plasters. Thick white lead paint is the best single material, however. Pruning-saws are required for this work, which should always be kept sharp and in good condition; those made with coarse teeth on one edge, and slightly finer on the other, will Fig. 149.—Two-edge Pruning Fig. 150.—Tree-Pruner. be found most handy (Fig. 149)- For trimming branches not over one inch in diameter on the more inaccessible parts of the trees, a powerful cutting- shears on the end of a pole has been devised, which is ex- tremely useful (Figs. 150 and ISO. the Peach.—No tree requires continued pruning so much as the peach. There is a strong tendency in the ter- minal buds to push upward and outward, at the expense of the side-shoots, which soon dying, the tree ultimately is com- posed of long, bare poles with only tufts of leaves at their extremities (Fig. 152). It is well known that young trees bear large, handsome, and excellent fruit, while the old, enfeebled trees yield nothing but small specimens of inferior quality. Con- tinued pruning will prevent this bad re- sult, and preserve the heads of old trees in a state of thrifty growth, and they will continue to yield as large and fine fruit as in the first years of bearing. As the peach always bears its fruit on the previous years' growth, and buds never start from old wood, it is im- portant to keep a continued supply of young wood, evenly Fig. isi.—Water's Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Thomas, J. J. (John Jacob); Wood, William H. S. New York, Orange Judd
Size: 1509px × 1656px
Photo credit: © Central Historic Books / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectfruitculture, bookyea
