. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. 1—Bing fruiting wood, natui'al size. l-'lCil'KE 2—One-year-old spui'S fruitful and barren. Fiouiu, Spurs one and five > ears oUl. Figure 4—Four-year-old branch of Bing. like those shown in Figures 1 and 2A. These one-year-old spurs are very de- sirable fruiting wood, but old spurs like the one shown in F"igure 38 may be maintained in a vigorous state by proper Ijruning. This spur is five years old, has borne annual crops, and is still in good vigor, for it bears six or seven good strong fruit buds. Vigor of fruit- ing wood is then maintained by pr
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. 1—Bing fruiting wood, natui'al size. l-'lCil'KE 2—One-year-old spui'S fruitful and barren. Fiouiu, Spurs one and five > ears oUl. Figure 4—Four-year-old branch of Bing. like those shown in Figures 1 and 2A. These one-year-old spurs are very de- sirable fruiting wood, but old spurs like the one shown in F"igure 38 may be maintained in a vigorous state by proper Ijruning. This spur is five years old, has borne annual crops, and is still in good vigor, for it bears six or seven good strong fruit buds. Vigor of fruit- ing wood is then maintained by prun- ing. If one should stutly a tree and find much wood like that shown in Figure 4* he would know that tiie tree had been iiiider-pruncd. This branch is four years old. It has borne very little fruit and for a branch five feet in length it t)ears very few fruit buds. It has each xear made a good annual growth and during the last three years has borne 'Footnote.—Where the letters A, B, C, etc., appear twice on the face of any cul, the reader niay, in his miini's eye, assemble the l)rauch liy placinj? the ends marked willi tlie same letter together. The bi-anchcs were cut for con- venience in 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 Washington State Apple Commission. Hood River, Ore. , Better Fruit Pub. Co
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