. The principles of fruit-growing, with applications to practice. Fruit-culture. 242 The Principles of Fruit-grovnng which the same may not be said. The fruit must all be picked sooner or later, and it does not cost very much more to pick it early in the season than to pick it late; in fact, much fruit not worth picking in the fall might have been eminently worth the labor if the trees had been. , Ji«3 j.'"V/ 1y^(^ s.\»- FiQ. 89. Duchess apple-orchard in Canada. thinned in the early summer. The practice is now assum- ing very special importance because of the rigid and high- class systems
. The principles of fruit-growing, with applications to practice. Fruit-culture. 242 The Principles of Fruit-grovnng which the same may not be said. The fruit must all be picked sooner or later, and it does not cost very much more to pick it early in the season than to pick it late; in fact, much fruit not worth picking in the fall might have been eminently worth the labor if the trees had been. , Ji«3 j.'"V/ 1y^(^ s.\»- FiQ. 89. Duchess apple-orchard in Canada. thinned in the early summer. The practice is now assum- ing very special importance because of the rigid and high- class systems of grading fruits that are being adopted by shipping associations. There are two general methods of thinning fruits: One is by pruning, by means of which the superflubus branches, or even the fruit-spurs themselves, are removed; the other is the direct picking of the redundant fruits. While pruning may accompUsh much, it is not sufRcient when the best fruit is wanted. There is no reason in the nature of things why trees should not bear annually; but the formation of the fruit-. 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 Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York : Macmillan
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