Effective farming; a text-book for Effective farming; a text-book for American schools effectivefarming00samp Year: 1919 244 Effective Farming adjacent ones — that is, nature prunes the trees. In growing fruit, the orchardist must do this if he is to secure the full benefits from his trees. Need for pruning. — On trees that grow very tall, it is usually good practice to cut back the main branches, thus giving the tree a more spreading form in order that it may be easily sprayed and cared for and the fruit easily gathered. Often pruning is done to lessen the ravages of such diseases as blight
Effective farming; a text-book for Effective farming; a text-book for American schools effectivefarming00samp Year: 1919 244 Effective Farming adjacent ones — that is, nature prunes the trees. In growing fruit, the orchardist must do this if he is to secure the full benefits from his trees. Need for pruning. — On trees that grow very tall, it is usually good practice to cut back the main branches, thus giving the tree a more spreading form in order that it may be easily sprayed and cared for and the fruit easily gathered. Often pruning is done to lessen the ravages of such diseases as blight and canker. These dis- eases spread rapidly from branch to branch and from tree to tree, and the removal of dis- eased branches may pre- vent the spread. It is always good practice to remove and burn any diseased portion of a fruit-tree. Trees planted at regular dis- tances apart must be pruned or their branches will grow together and interfere with the or- chard operations. Also, trees like the peach, which bear fruit on the new wood at the outside of the tree, should be pruned regularly in order that the weight of the fruit be kept near the body and main branches. Winter and summer pruning. — Pruning at different seasons of the year has different effects on the tree. Pruning in winter Fig. 100. Same tree as shown in Fig. 99 after pruning.
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