The California fruits and how to grow them; . d with wiremakes a bundle easily handled by the fireman. THINNING FRUIT Intimately connected with the pruning of bearing trees, is thethinning of the fruit or proper spacing of the individual fruitsso that each shall have space and sap to allow its attainment ofsatisfactory marketable size. It has been fully demonstrated thatno demand is profitable which will be content with the undersizedfruit from an overladen tree. The superior price for good-sizedfruit for all uses, not excluding drying, is unquestionable; thetotal weight secured may be variabl
The California fruits and how to grow them; . d with wiremakes a bundle easily handled by the fireman. THINNING FRUIT Intimately connected with the pruning of bearing trees, is thethinning of the fruit or proper spacing of the individual fruitsso that each shall have space and sap to allow its attainment ofsatisfactory marketable size. It has been fully demonstrated thatno demand is profitable which will be content with the undersizedfruit from an overladen tree. The superior price for good-sizedfruit for all uses, not excluding drying, is unquestionable; thetotal weight secured may be variable as between thinned andunthinned trees, but it can be accepted as an indisputable factthat any increase of weight there may be upon an unthinned treewill not be nearly an equivalent for the loss in value. It is theconclusion of our largest and most successful growers that, largeas is the expenditure required for careful and systematic thinningof fruit. It is the most directly profitable outlay which they haveto make for orchard 137 138 CALIFORNIA FRUITS: HOW TO GROW THEM Objects in View in Fruit Thinning.—But thinning fruit hasobjects beyond the vakie of the visible crop which it makes profit-able. No overburdened tree can discharge the twofold summerduty of every cultivated fruit-bearing tree, which is to perfect thisseasons fruit and lay a good strong foundation for next yearsbearing. If the tree, after fruit gathering, has not the strong,vigorous foliage to complete the formation of fruit buds for thefollowing year, there will either be a lack of bloom or a show ofbloom unfit to set, and the tree will Avork for itself next year, andnot for you, because this 3^ear you would not work for it. Inthis particular, thinning fruit coincides in purpose with pruningto limit the amount of bearing wood, which has already beenconsidered. Other objects there are also which are related directly to theprofit of orcharding and should command respect from the mostcareless. Th
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