. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. I(JIC) BETTER FRUIT PilgC I^ the liguri's l).\ one huiiilieil. i«iving us the growtli reeoid I'roin one hunih'eil shoots, e;ich with ten hiteiiil buils. (It is of course not imagined that any bearing tree would present exaetlv the conditions here assumed. 'I'he slioots of' trees are not of uniform lengtli; all do not respond in the same way, even though jMuned hack relatively the same amount. Many factoi\s enter to cause individual variation and the pruner will, to a certain extent, take these factors into considerati(m, pruning one shoot heavily to check or subo
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. I(JIC) BETTER FRUIT PilgC I^ the liguri's l).\ one huiiilieil. i«iving us the growtli reeoid I'roin one hunih'eil shoots, e;ich with ten hiteiiil buils. (It is of course not imagined that any bearing tree would present exaetlv the conditions here assumed. 'I'he slioots of' trees are not of uniform lengtli; all do not respond in the same way, even though jMuned hack relatively the same amount. Many factoi\s enter to cause individual variation and the pruner will, to a certain extent, take these factors into considerati(m, pruning one shoot heavily to check or subordinate it, another lightl.\- to encourage it, etc. Nevertheless there seems to be no gootl reason for believing that our theoret- ical example of a tree with one hun- dred .shoots, each shoot having ten e(|ually-spaced lateral buds, would be- have in a manner materially difTerent from trees as we find them. Indeed, it is believed that on the average they would behave alike. It is only by tak- ing theoretical cases of this sort that a simple comparison of results between different methods of pruning iiia\ be readily made.) From the one hunderd old shoots we would obtain two hundred new shoots, three bundled new fruit-spurs, and have left two hundred dormant buds. It would seem that the net result of a light heading back is practically to double the original number of shoots, and also to develop i|uite a large num- ber of new fruit-spurs. Next, let us see what results we may expect from a heavy heading back. By heavy heading back we will assume that there is meant the removal of the terminal sixty per cent of the shoot grow'th of the season. Again assuming a tree with one hundred .shoots, each possessing ten etiually-spaced lateral buds, heavy heading back would leave four hundred latei'al buds on the shoot growth of the past season. The com- paratively heavy heading that these shoots would receive would have a tendency to force out a large number of the buds left into shoot gr
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