. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . rations are confined to keeping the tree in shape, removal of dead or damaged branches and short-ening-in the current seasons growth to keep the youngtwigs in a vigorous growing condition and to preventoverbearing. One interesting exception to the usual practice mightbe mentioned l
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . rations are confined to keeping the tree in shape, removal of dead or damaged branches and short-ening-in the current seasons growth to keep the youngtwigs in a vigorous growing condition and to preventoverbearing. One interesting exception to the usual practice mightbe mentioned liere. On some very rich, moist bottom-lands of the San Joaquin valley the long, slenderbranches are not cut back; in fact, they are encouragedby iiruning back to the crown. The long, arching canesare allowed to remain until they have produced a crop(which they do in the second season with the greatestprofusion), the ends resting upon the ground as the fruitgains weight. When these droop too low, they are cutback to the crown, when others will be produced to taketheir places. In this way enormous crops of fruit areproduced on these lands, where, with ordinary treatment,the trees would run entirely to wood. Thorough and persistent tillage is one of the firstprinciples of the California orchardist, for with him. 1856. Damson Plum (X H). (See page 1373.) the absence of summer rains makes the conservationof the winter rainfall an absolute necessity. Evenin the summer-irrigated districts the soil is tilled andkept loose as soon as it is in proper condition, and noweeds allowed to rob the trees of the precious fluid. Upto three years ago, practically all the prune and Plumcrop was produced without summer irrigation. Winterirrigation was often practiced and the water conserved inthe soil by the usual methods of tillage. But the season of1897-8 was one of the driest in the history of the state,with less than one-third of the usual amount of use of summer irrigation was in s
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