Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form . p, or a well-branchedtree, the entire top should be cutoff at the point where a new headis wanted. If any branches remainbelow that point, those, also, arecutoff,—not too closely, however;tis usually better to leave stubsabout an inch in length, so as notto injure the remaining peach growers cut off theirtrees at a uniform height of aboutone and one-half feet; others pre-fer a height of two, or two andone-half, or even three feet. The decision dependssomewhat on the size of th
Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form . p, or a well-branchedtree, the entire top should be cutoff at the point where a new headis wanted. If any branches remainbelow that point, those, also, arecutoff,—not too closely, however;tis usually better to leave stubsabout an inch in length, so as notto injure the remaining peach growers cut off theirtrees at a uniform height of aboutone and one-half feet; others pre-fer a height of two, or two andone-half, or even three feet. The decision dependssomewhat on the size of the trees, and the growerspersonal preference ; but there is no doubt that thelowest possible head, consistent rwith future cultivation, is mostdesirable. Two feet, or two feetand a quarter, is perhaps a happymedium. The StringeeivI<ow Meth-od. —A very severe kind of rootand top pruning, known as theStringfellow method, is some-times advocated. The chief ad-vantage claimed is that the rootsgrow straighter downward than .,, ,. ^ . , SAME PEACH TREE, with ordinary trees, giving greater after pruning. PRUNING : CARE OF NKWLY-SET TREES 41
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