. Biggle orchard book [microform] : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form. Fruit-culture. Chapter V. LATKR PRUNING. The ideal pruning consists not in cheeking growth, but in directing it. Before touching saw or knife lo a tree, the orcharclist should have well in mind what he ought to accomplish by the work. Among the following are the chief objects sought: 1. To restore the balance between top and roots at time of setting out (as told in Chapter IV). 2. To make the top open-centred, regulate the number of limbs com- posing it, fix it at the prop
. Biggle orchard book [microform] : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form. Fruit-culture. Chapter V. LATKR PRUNING. The ideal pruning consists not in cheeking growth, but in directing it. Before touching saw or knife lo a tree, the orcharclist should have well in mind what he ought to accomplish by the work. Among the following are the chief objects sought: 1. To restore the balance between top and roots at time of setting out (as told in Chapter IV). 2. To make the top open-centred, regulate the number of limbs com- posing it, fix it at the proper height from the ground, and do away with we;ik crotches. .3. \n older trees, to remove crossed branches, and thin them out to admit sunlight and thus facilitate spraying, ripening, etc. A. To induce the production of fruit rather than wood, and vice versa; in other words, to correct shy bearing and overbearing. 5. To keep lower limbs out of the way of cultivation, and upper ones from growing out of easy reach of spraying, picking, etc. 6. To change biennial to annual bearing ; in other words, to break a tree of the "off year " habit. (45). 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 Biggle, Jacob. Philadelphia : Wilmer Atkinson Co.
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