. The miniature fruit garden ; or, The culture of pyramidal and bush fruit trees ... Fruit-culture. PEAR TREES AS BUSHES. 17 PEAE TEEE8 AS BUSHES ON THE QUINOE STOCK. It is only very recently that this mode of cultivat- ing pear trees has struck me as being eligible, from having observed the fruit of some of the large heavy varieties, such as Beurre Diel and Beurre d'Amanlis, so liable to be blown off pyramids by even moderate autumnal gales. The trees also of these and several other fine sorts of pears are difficult to train in the. pyramidal form; they are diffuse in their growth, and, with
. The miniature fruit garden ; or, The culture of pyramidal and bush fruit trees ... Fruit-culture. PEAR TREES AS BUSHES. 17 PEAE TEEE8 AS BUSHES ON THE QUINOE STOCK. It is only very recently that this mode of cultivat- ing pear trees has struck me as being eligible, from having observed the fruit of some of the large heavy varieties, such as Beurre Diel and Beurre d'Amanlis, so liable to be blown off pyramids by even moderate autumnal gales. The trees also of these and several other fine sorts of pears are difficult to train in the. pyramidal form; they are diffuse in their growth, and, with summer pinching, soon form nice prolific bushes, of which the preceding figure (Fig. 5), from nature, will give some idea. This summer pinching is quite necessary in bush culture, and is performed by pinch- ing off the end of every shoot as soon as it has made four or five leaves, to three full-sized ones; when the branches become browded they should be thinned by. 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 Rivers, Thomas, 1798-1877. New York, O. Judd & company
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