The California fruits and how to grow them; . , perhaps, but there is a certain limpness anddrooping which betokens decided decline in activity. It comes firstto the early fruits, the cherries and apricots, for instance, and uponold trees earlier than young ones. The buds are well formed; the GOOD FORMS OF YOUNG TREES 131 seasons growth apparently complete. There are no frosts to hastenthe fall of the leaf and it remains in place. Does it render any im-portant service ? On the conclusion that it does not, many growersbegin the winter pruning while the days are longer and ground dryand firm rat
The California fruits and how to grow them; . , perhaps, but there is a certain limpness anddrooping which betokens decided decline in activity. It comes firstto the early fruits, the cherries and apricots, for instance, and uponold trees earlier than young ones. The buds are well formed; the GOOD FORMS OF YOUNG TREES 131 seasons growth apparently complete. There are no frosts to hastenthe fall of the leaf and it remains in place. Does it render any im-portant service ? On the conclusion that it does not, many growersbegin the winter pruning while the days are longer and ground dryand firm rather than delay pruning until the short, dark days andrain-soaked soil of December and January render pruning expensiveand disagreeable. Those trees are first pruned which first assumethe appearance described, and the work proceeds with other varie-ties afterwards until the winter pruning is finished by December 1—about the time when it commonly began under the old practice. Notonly is more thus accomplished in the same number of days work,. Young peach and apple trees, showing branches well spaced on the stems. but the orchard is earlier in shape for the winter spraying and culti-vation and the grower is ahead of his work and not behind it all theseason if the season is unusually rainy. Several years practice ofthis method discloses no bad results except in the one item ofincreasing danger from frost. Vines and trees pruned early in thedormant period have a tendency to start growth earlier than thosepruned late in the dormant period. In places, then, where earlybloom and fruit-setting are particularly threatened by frost, thispractice may be undesirable. Spring Pruning.—Resting largely upon this matter of retardinggrowth, the practice of pruning very late in the dormant period, or,in fact, at the beginning of the growing season, is also gaining wideradoption where frost injury is especially feared. It is not actual -too CALIFORNIA FRUITS: HOW TO .GROW THEM freezing, but a d
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