. Apple growing in the Pacific Northwest; a condensation of lectures, experiments and discussions. s deep, not 18 or 20 inches above the surface of the snil is the riglit i)lacefor a tree to be cut after being planted. Slide No. 2 represents the second years growtli. The tree Avasgrown one season and is now ready to enter the next season. Thistree when originally set was a one-year-old tree with limbs on tile iiii(hU( (if .luly 1 cut the limbs oil hei-e. then tlu> followiuirspjing. or in the latter part of the winter the inside of the tree Avascut out. One of the lectu
. Apple growing in the Pacific Northwest; a condensation of lectures, experiments and discussions. s deep, not 18 or 20 inches above the surface of the snil is the riglit i)lacefor a tree to be cut after being planted. Slide No. 2 represents the second years growtli. The tree Avasgrown one season and is now ready to enter the next season. Thistree when originally set was a one-year-old tree with limbs on tile iiii(hU( (if .luly 1 cut the limbs oil hei-e. then tlu> followiuirspjing. or in the latter part of the winter the inside of the tree Avascut out. One of the lecturers here stated that a young tree shouldnot be pruned in the miibUe of the summer. Pruning an olil tree insumnur pi-oduces fiuit spurs, but young trees sliould be allowed togiow as much as they will in sunnner. Xo d(Hibt before that tree was]»rune(] in the spring theie were many li;nl)s mi the insiih. but lliere;ire now four limlis Avhich mean so mucli aliead. One need not thinklie is going to get apples bj pruning of tliat kiiul. I sliould have BUILDING AX APPLE TREE 71 ?f^ • •?»». One of the famous apple orchards of the Rogue Hi\er Valley, near Medford. suggested that on straight switch growth as soon as the growth startsout. along the limbs, rub these oif, leaving four or five at the on they become the center or whirl for the top. I would preferthree or four for the main upright stalk, but one can not always getthem as he wants them, consequently he should let four of them startfrom the most symmetrical points around: the body of the tree. Slide No. 3 represents a tree one year older. Of course that hasbeen doubly pruned in summer and winter, although I always prunemy young trees twice a year, which is perhaps not in accordance withother advocates, but we ditfer in opinion. I presume some of youthink that is an older tree, but l)y counting the growth you will findit is pruned the same way. You will notice that I always have anopen center to a tree. In other
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