Productive orcharding, modern methods of growing and marketing fruit . Fig. 103.—Trunk of a tree damaged by toomuch nitrogen. The cambium layer has beenkilled and the bark is separating (rom the wood. 224 RENOVATING OLD ORCHARDS tree is bound to make a still more rank growth, and it is goingto be practically impossible to check it in the autumn in timefor it to ripen its wood before winter comes on. The resultis almost certain to be more or less damage to the cambiumlayer and consequent killing of the adjoining bark. If thedamage is less we are likely to find injury around the trunkof the tree
Productive orcharding, modern methods of growing and marketing fruit . Fig. 103.—Trunk of a tree damaged by toomuch nitrogen. The cambium layer has beenkilled and the bark is separating (rom the wood. 224 RENOVATING OLD ORCHARDS tree is bound to make a still more rank growth, and it is goingto be practically impossible to check it in the autumn in timefor it to ripen its wood before winter comes on. The resultis almost certain to be more or less damage to the cambiumlayer and consequent killing of the adjoining bark. If thedamage is less we are likely to find injury around the trunkof the tree, as is shown in Figure 103. In this case the bark waskilled only part way around and the tree survived, but it is like a down to work is coiicorncd. man with one lung so far as gettin. Fig. 104.—An orchard damaged by too much nitrogen. The have grown late in theautumn and have not been able to withstand the cold. When the daxaage is more severe the tree may be killed outrightor so severely damaged that it is practically out of the race. Figure 104 shows a case of this kind. It was in an orchardin the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. The trees had beenrather neglected for several years, being kept in sod and nofertilizer used. Then the owner had a change of heart anddecided to do better by his trees, so he plowed the orchard andapplied a heavy dressing of barnyard manure. The soil wasnot very fertile, and the past neglect had made it less so, with theresult that the trees had made long, straggling roots in searchof moisture and plant food, as it is well known that trees will CULTIVATION 225 do in a poor soil like this. Then comes this entire change ofconditions. The soil is plowed up and supplied with an abun-dance of both moisture and food, particularly nitro
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