The California fruits and how to grow them; a manual of methods which have yielded greatest success, with the lists of varieties best adapted to the different districts of the state . is a greater tendency toform small new growths, which may fruit the following season. In the peach,it will seldom be found necessary to remove any interior branches, except suck-ers, until they have produced a crop, when they will begin to decline andshould be removed. I would certainly not cut peach trees back less than one-half of the newgrowth in the winter pruning, and our trees are getting too large for thei
The California fruits and how to grow them; a manual of methods which have yielded greatest success, with the lists of varieties best adapted to the different districts of the state . is a greater tendency toform small new growths, which may fruit the following season. In the peach,it will seldom be found necessary to remove any interior branches, except suck-ers, until they have produced a crop, when they will begin to decline andshould be removed. I would certainly not cut peach trees back less than one-half of the newgrowth in the winter pruning, and our trees are getting too large for their ageeven with that amount of pruning. This has suggested, in other localities, sum-mer pruning or shortening in, with success in some places. So far my own ex-perience is favorable. It will be noticed on trees kept growing rapidly that thefruit buds are near the ends of the shoots, and it seems to take away too manvof these buds to cut back one-half in the winter pruning, but by cutting backabout one-half the new growth in August, fruit buds are developed lower down,and where they would not be developed without the summer pruning.—H. Cul-bcrtsou, El Cajon, San Diego ?K*
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