Horticulture, a text book for high schools and normals, including plant propagation; . Fig. 107.—Gano apples, before and after thinning. It takes courage to thin fruit, but thesize is increased enough to pay. (Ohio Station, Newark.) The objects of thinning are (1) to prevent the spread of rot orother disease of the fruit; (2) to increase the size and quality of the IRRIGATION IN DRY CLIMATES 183 fruit left on the trees; (3) to induce the tree to bear a good cropannually instead of every other year; (4) to save work at harvesttime in picking and sorting low grade fruit. Dwarf apple trees are ne
Horticulture, a text book for high schools and normals, including plant propagation; . Fig. 107.—Gano apples, before and after thinning. It takes courage to thin fruit, but thesize is increased enough to pay. (Ohio Station, Newark.) The objects of thinning are (1) to prevent the spread of rot orother disease of the fruit; (2) to increase the size and quality of the IRRIGATION IN DRY CLIMATES 183 fruit left on the trees; (3) to induce the tree to bear a good cropannually instead of every other year; (4) to save work at harvesttime in picking and sorting low grade fruit. Dwarf apple trees are neither a fad nor a novelty. But theyare not usually considered commercially profitable in any variety of apple can be made to grow well on dwarfingstocks as Paradise or quince. The trees will then come tobearing much younger (Fig. 108). They may be planted as close. Fig. 108.—An orchard of dwarf apple trees four years old. (New Jersey Station.) as seven to nine feet apart each way. The fruit is not changed insize or otherwise by the dwarfmg. The trees are more expensivethan standard trees and many more are required to set an the yield per tree is much less, the yield per acre is not asmuch reduced as might be expected. Irrigation in Dry Climates.—^In arid regions of the westernstates and elsewhere irrigation of orchards is necessary. Watermay be applied to the soil in a number of ways. Far the mostconmion method is to plow furrows between rows as shown in 184 THE HOME ORCHARD—APPLE, PEAR, QUINCE figure 109 or to have the furrows cross the orchard along lines thatare nearly level. Water is turned into the furrows from headditches as desired. One day or a few days after watering, the soil should be tilled toconserve the moisture and to prevent baking and cracking of thesurface. A harrow of some type to suit the texture may be usedf
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