The fruits and fruit trees of America; or, the culture, propagation, and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally; with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country . hegreater luxuriance and size of the foliage, as a necessary conse-quence, produces larger and higher flavoured Thus, * We think low heads much preferable to high ones on many shade the root, which insects are therefore much less liable to at-tack, and they are more within reach both for pruning and gathering. f It is well, in shorte
The fruits and fruit trees of America; or, the culture, propagation, and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally; with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country . hegreater luxuriance and size of the foliage, as a necessary conse-quence, produces larger and higher flavoured Thus, * We think low heads much preferable to high ones on many shade the root, which insects are therefore much less liable to at-tack, and they are more within reach both for pruning and gathering. f It is well, in shortening-back, to cut off the shoot close above a wood-hud rather than a blossom-bud. Few persons are aware how much thesize and beauty of the fruit depends on the size and vigour of the have seen two peach trees of the same age side by side, one unpruned,and the other regularly shortened-in, and both bearing about four of the latter was, however, of double the size, and incomparablyfiner. THE PEACH. 595 while we have secured against the prevalent evil, an over-crop,we have also provided for thefull nourishment of the presentyears fruit, and induced a sup-ply of fruit-bearing shootsthrouo-hout the tree, for the next. season. This course of pruning is fol-lowed regularly, every year, forthe whole life of the tree. It isdone much more rapidly thanone would suppose ; the pruned A peach tree pruned by the shorien-wounds are too small to cause ing-in mode. any gum to flow; and it is done at the close of winter, when labour is worth least to the culti-vator. The appearance of a tree pruned in this way, after manyyears of bearing, is a very striking contrast to that of the poorskeletons usually seen. It is, in fact, a fine object, with a thick,low, bushy head, filled with healthy young wood, and in thesummer with an abundance of dark-green, healthy foliage, andhandsome fruit. Can any intelligent man hesitate about adopt-ing so simple a course of treatment to secure
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