. Rational fruit culture. Fruit-culture. 4 RATIONAL FRUIT CULTURE. stones, cutting out rings of bark, and so forth. All these methods have been superseded by lifting at intervals or root- pruning. LIFTING. Lifting should be performed in the second or third year after planting. A trench is dug round the tree after the. Fig. I.—An old mithod of controlling tlu food-tupply ol a tr«o a wire lastoned tightly round It and now embeddod In the bark. loiives have fallen; any long thick roots are severed with a shiirp knife or saw; and the troe, with u large hail of earth, is. Please note that these ima
. Rational fruit culture. Fruit-culture. 4 RATIONAL FRUIT CULTURE. stones, cutting out rings of bark, and so forth. All these methods have been superseded by lifting at intervals or root- pruning. LIFTING. Lifting should be performed in the second or third year after planting. A trench is dug round the tree after the. Fig. I.—An old mithod of controlling tlu food-tupply ol a tr«o a wire lastoned tightly round It and now embeddod In the bark. loiives have fallen; any long thick roots are severed with a shiirp knife or saw; and the troe, with u large hail of earth, is. 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 Davidson, Hugh Coleman. London, "Garden life" press
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