. Beginners' guide to fruit growing : a simple statement of the elementary practices of propagation, planting, culture, fertilization, pruning, spraying, etc. Fruit-culture. PRUNING 73 out by thumb and fingers; or when heavier growths are to be removed, as in summer pruning of peach trees or Japanese plums, the operator can, by pro- FIG. 34—HAND SHEARS tecting himself with a pair of stout canvas gloves, break out the soft shoots very rapidly and yet do an excellent sort of work. It hardly needs to FIG. 35—TWO-HAND SHEARS be remarked that this kind of pruning is the fastest and by far the cheap
. Beginners' guide to fruit growing : a simple statement of the elementary practices of propagation, planting, culture, fertilization, pruning, spraying, etc. Fruit-culture. PRUNING 73 out by thumb and fingers; or when heavier growths are to be removed, as in summer pruning of peach trees or Japanese plums, the operator can, by pro- FIG. 34—HAND SHEARS tecting himself with a pair of stout canvas gloves, break out the soft shoots very rapidly and yet do an excellent sort of work. It hardly needs to FIG. 35—TWO-HAND SHEARS be remarked that this kind of pruning is the fastest and by far the cheapest sort that can be done. The shears. The hand pruning shears are, all things. FIG. 36—^POCKET PRUNING KNIFE considered, the most useful of all pruning tools. (See Figure 34.) Shears of medium weight are best for general purposes, though if the fruit grower. 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 Waugh, Frank A. (Frank Albert), 1869-1943. New York : Orange Judd Company
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