. Horticulture; a text book for high schools and normals, including plant propagation; plant breeding; gardening; orcharding; small fruit growing; forestry; beautifying home grounds; the soils and enemies involved. Fig. 110.—An old Baldwin orchard after being rejuvenated by pruning, spraying,, culti-vating and fertilizing. (Courtesy of F. C. Sears.). Fig. 111.—A lesson in rejuvenating an old apple tree. Such work is necessary only aftermuch neglect. (New Jersey Station.) 3. Fertilizing the soil to feed the trees must be done withjudgment. Use considerable stable manure or nitrogenous fertil-iz
. Horticulture; a text book for high schools and normals, including plant propagation; plant breeding; gardening; orcharding; small fruit growing; forestry; beautifying home grounds; the soils and enemies involved. Fig. 110.—An old Baldwin orchard after being rejuvenated by pruning, spraying,, culti-vating and fertilizing. (Courtesy of F. C. Sears.). Fig. 111.—A lesson in rejuvenating an old apple tree. Such work is necessary only aftermuch neglect. (New Jersey Station.) 3. Fertilizing the soil to feed the trees must be done withjudgment. Use considerable stable manure or nitrogenous fertil-izer if the growth of leaves and new wood show lack of vigor (Fig. 186 THE HOME ORCHARD—APPLE, PEAR, QUINCE 112). If this growth is likely to be sufficiently stimulated bypruning and cultivation, omit most of the nitrogen but feed thetrees with phosphate and potash. 4. Spraying is always necessary in a neglected orchard. Followa good annual spraying campaign as given in a later chapter. 5. Working over the trees to change the variety to a morevaluable kind is sometimes advisable. This takes more time anddelays the results longer than the four preceding operations. Formethods of grafting and budding old trees see Chapter VI. (Fig. 113) Harvesting the Apple Crop.—Some varieties of trees will bearafter five or six years, while others will re
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