. The American farmer. A hand-book of agriculture for the farm and garden ... Agriculture. 518 farmer's hand-book. thinned out, or shortened, or both ; and it is useful when the plants are prevented from exhausting themselves by the removal of decaying blossoms, BO as to prevent them from maturing their seeds. A pair of pruning-scis- sors are useful in case of rose-bushes, & Pruning Fruit-trees and Shrubs. — These, above all other plants, are benefited by pruning, which is indeed by far the most important part of their culture. The most general object of pruning is to create an abundant
. The American farmer. A hand-book of agriculture for the farm and garden ... Agriculture. 518 farmer's hand-book. thinned out, or shortened, or both ; and it is useful when the plants are prevented from exhausting themselves by the removal of decaying blossoms, BO as to prevent them from maturing their seeds. A pair of pruning-scis- sors are useful in case of rose-bushes, & Pruning Fruit-trees and Shrubs. — These, above all other plants, are benefited by pruning, which is indeed by far the most important part of their culture. The most general object of pruning is to create an abundant Bupply of sap during summer, by the production of leaf-shoots, by which the general strength of the tree is augmented, and to limit the distribution of this sap when it ascends from the roots in the following spring, by dimin- ishing the number of buds. The effect of this is to increase the vigor of Fig. 335. 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 O'Neill, F. W; Williams, H. L. New York, C. W. Carleton & co.
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