. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. e. There is, however, one season for pruning unquestionablypreferable to all others, as far as the welfare of the tree, and the soundness of itsfuture timber, is concerned. It is well known to physiologists and observing gardeners,that when the sap is returning, wounds heal with the greatest rapidity. Hence, inall plants which arc difficult to strik
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. e. There is, however, one season for pruning unquestionablypreferable to all others, as far as the welfare of the tree, and the soundness of itsfuture timber, is concerned. It is well known to physiologists and observing gardeners,that when the sap is returning, wounds heal with the greatest rapidity. Hence, inall plants which arc difficult to strike from cuttings, the gardener makes choice of thepoint of a shoot in that particular stage of maturation when the sap is returning; thatis, when the of the shoot is beginning to assume a ligneous character. This, inhardy trees, is uniformly a week or a fortnight after midsummer, and it will be foundthat the wounds made by cutting off branches at that season, or any time within threeweeks after midsummer, will, in the course of four or live weeks, be partly covered witha callosity proceeding from the lips of the wound. Wounds made by cutting branchesoff the same trees, live weeks after midsummer, will remain without the slightest indi-. Book II. PRUNING TREES. 65] cation of healing at the edges till the following spring ; and if the tree is delicate, or thewinter severe, they will then be in a worse condition than if they had not been prunedat all; the lips of the wounds will have begun to decay. The only seeming contradictionto this general law in trees is where what are called second growths are produced, as inthe oak and some other trees, and in such cases there is of course a second returningsap, for the same reason that there was at first. (Gard. Mag. vol. vi. p. 94.) 3995. In spring pruning, desist when bleeding takes place. As a general rule, Pontey thinks summerpreferable to winter pruning; because, in proportion as wounds are made early they heal so much morein t
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