. The American fruit culturist : containing directions for the propagation and culture of fruit trees in the nursery, orchid and garden : with descriptions of the principal American and foreign varieties cultivated in the United States . Fruit-culture. 90 After the single shoot from the bud has grown one sea- son, (fig. a,) it is cut down so as to leave not over one foot, and if the tree is weak not over six inches, (fig. b.) As a conse- quence, the buds on this remain- ing portion, receiving all the sap, make a vigorous growth. The upper one must be convert- ed into a leader, by pin
. The American fruit culturist : containing directions for the propagation and culture of fruit trees in the nursery, orchid and garden : with descriptions of the principal American and foreign varieties cultivated in the United States . Fruit-culture. 90 After the single shoot from the bud has grown one sea- son, (fig. a,) it is cut down so as to leave not over one foot, and if the tree is weak not over six inches, (fig. b.) As a conse- quence, the buds on this remain- ing portion, receiving all the sap, make a vigorous growth. The upper one must be convert- ed into a leader, by pinching off early the tips of the others, beginning first with the upper ones which will be the strongest, and gradually descending as the season advances to the lower ones, which should be left the longest in order to give them the most strength, (fig. c.) Six inches of naked stem below the branches should be left, by rubbing off all shoots below ; and if in a region liable to deep snows, this space should be a foot, to prevent splitting off the limbs by the weight of the snow, and for which object the tree should not be cut down lower than eighteen inches at the .close of the first season. The pruning after the second year's growth, consists in cutting down again the leader for a second crop of side shoots ; and these side shoots, and the new leader, are to be treated precisely as those below were treated the year before. At the same time, the last year's side shoots,.on the lower part, are to be cut back, (the longest at the bottom so as to give a pyramidal form,) in order to insure the growth of the buds upon them. The new side shoots thus caused, are to be pinched off so as to convert them into fruit spurs, (according to the process described hereafter in this chap- ter,) except one shoot left on each as a leader, and another, if needed, to fill up the space made by the widening limbs. The pyramid may now be said to have ' been fairly formed; and it is only re- quisite to co
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