. An encyclopædia of gardening; . ifth year. Every practical gardener, desirous of excelling in the trainingand spurring of fruit-trees, ought to possess Harrisons treatise. 4428. Heading down apple-trees that are much cankered, is strongly recommended byForsyth, who gives an example of one (Jig. 484.), after it had been headed down fouryears, which bore plenty of fine fruit. The point at which it was headed down (a) waswithin eighteen inches of the soil; and under it, on the stump, were two large wounds (b) -702 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Part III. and (c), made by cutting out the cankery part, a
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . ifth year. Every practical gardener, desirous of excelling in the trainingand spurring of fruit-trees, ought to possess Harrisons treatise. 4428. Heading down apple-trees that are much cankered, is strongly recommended byForsyth, who gives an example of one (Jig. 484.), after it had been headed down fouryears, which bore plenty of fine fruit. The point at which it was headed down (a) waswithin eighteen inches of the soil; and under it, on the stump, were two large wounds (b) -702 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Part III. and (c), made by cutting out the cankery part, and which being covei-ed with the com-position were soon nearly filled up with sound wood. Very little pruning is at first givento trees so cut, but afterwards a regular succession of bearing wood is kept up by re-moving such as have borne for three or four years. Thus, one branch [d), which hasdone bearing, is cut off, and succeeded by another (f), and when that is tired also, it iscut off, and replaced by a third (e), and so 4429. Grafting old apple-trees of different sorts with superior varieties, is an ot)vlous and long-tried im-provement. In this case, if the tree is a standard, it is only headed down to standard heiglit; in old , most commonly the branches only are cut over within a foot or two of the trunk, and then grafted151 the crown or cleft manner. 4430. Injuries, insects, &c.^ The mistletoe {Viscum album) is frequently, through negligence, suffered toinjure trees in orchards, and different species of mosses and lichens those in gardens. Moss, Knightobserves, appears to constitute a symptomatic, rather than a primary, disease in fruit-trees : it is oftenbrought on by,a damp or uncultivated soil, by the age of the variety of fruit, and by the want of air andSight in closely planted unpruned orchards. In these cases it can only be destroyed by removing the causeto which it owes its existence. 4431. Blights. WTiatever deranges and destroys the organisatio
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