. Culture of the citrus in California. California. Pomology; Citrus. THE LEMON IN CALIFORNIA—PRUNING. 181 This may in time need thinning out, but that is an easy- matter. "This may seem like heroic work, and many dislike to undertake it, though they may be convinced that it will pay in the end. It does not mean the total loss of a year's crop by any means. The yield will not be so large, it is true, but the actual returns ma}' not be far behind. Let me call your atten- tion to the saving that will be effected in the cost of picking. To go into the top of a large tree five or six times a y
. Culture of the citrus in California. California. Pomology; Citrus. THE LEMON IN CALIFORNIA—PRUNING. 181 This may in time need thinning out, but that is an easy- matter. "This may seem like heroic work, and many dislike to undertake it, though they may be convinced that it will pay in the end. It does not mean the total loss of a year's crop by any means. The yield will not be so large, it is true, but the actual returns ma}' not be far behind. Let me call your atten- tion to the saving that will be effected in the cost of picking. To go into the top of a large tree five or six times a year for a half box of lemons is an expensive business and increases the cost of picking to almost more than the actual value of the fruit. By this method of pruning, the fruit will be kept within easy reach. " To get the best results from this system of pruning the work must be followed up and all useless growth re- moved while the process will shock neither the feelings of the grower nor the sensibilities of the tree. " Let me say here that the grove that yielded the largest returns in this section seems to me to have been pruned nearly in line with these suggestions. By a com- mon-sense method of pruning, lemon trees are gotten into such shape that the wind causes less damage to fruit and tree, and the branches are not broken if overburdened with fruit. Props and twenty-foot ladders are rendered unnecessary, the cost of picking is reduced from one third to one half, the quality of the fruit is materially improved, the returns are largely aug- mented, and the grower made correspondingly ;. A low-pruned tree headed back, and supporting a large quantity of 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 Lelong, Byron Martin, 1856-1901. Sacramento, A. J. Johnston, superintendent
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