. California fruits and how to grow them. Fruit culture. Yearling peach. Cut back at planting. First summer's growth in the orchard. These sketches, and those on pages 98 and 99, represent the progress of the peach tree from a branched yearling to bearing form entering the third summer. ver\- good representative of the vase-form of a tree as grown in California. It has four main branches, each issuing from a dif- ferent point on the stem, each penriitted to carry two main branches, which are not arranged around the circumference, but some of them tending toward the center. At the third pruning
. California fruits and how to grow them. Fruit culture. Yearling peach. Cut back at planting. First summer's growth in the orchard. These sketches, and those on pages 98 and 99, represent the progress of the peach tree from a branched yearling to bearing form entering the third summer. ver\- good representative of the vase-form of a tree as grown in California. It has four main branches, each issuing from a dif- ferent point on the stem, each penriitted to carry two main branches, which are not arranged around the circumference, but some of them tending toward the center. At the third pruning more shoots have been left than are required by the rule, for. starting with four main branches, there are usually sixteen left at the third pruning. PRUNING BEARING TREES. Three winter prunings of deciduous trees usually establish their permanent form, and ever, certain general considerations which are proper in this connection: Pruning during the dormancy of the tree induces greater growth of wood during the following summer; pruning during the active period reduces wood growth and promotes fruit-bearing. The amount of wood removed during the dormant period will make the summer growth of wood proportionately stronger. Whether the total weight of wood growth would be greater may be questioned, but the effective wood growth is certainlv greater. Whether the feci of new wood grown on a peach tree cut back to stumps in the winter would be greater in weight. 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 Wickson, Edward James, 1848- [from old catalog]. San Francisco, The Pacific rural press
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