. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. THE HARDY FRUIT GARDEN. 95 persistent pinciing, pot culture, and growth under glass, unless the spur is severely out hack as shown hy the lines, such enormous fertility is likely to deteriorate the fruit into comparative worthlessness, as well as to destroy the vigour and end the life of the tree. But such illustrations of fertility are given as warnings rather than examples. Fig. 40 is a more normal example of the fertility forced by judicious pinching and stopping of the ordinary lateral shoots or hearing wood of the Pear, whether trained in horizont
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. THE HARDY FRUIT GARDEN. 95 persistent pinciing, pot culture, and growth under glass, unless the spur is severely out hack as shown hy the lines, such enormous fertility is likely to deteriorate the fruit into comparative worthlessness, as well as to destroy the vigour and end the life of the tree. But such illustrations of fertility are given as warnings rather than examples. Fig. 40 is a more normal example of the fertility forced by judicious pinching and stopping of the ordinary lateral shoots or hearing wood of the Pear, whether trained in horizontal, fan, or other fashions. ; This shoot was stopped at the third leaf, as it hroke into excessive vigour (see 1). It â was then permitted to make five leaves. When stopped at 2, its strength was not only greatly re- duced by the second stoppage, but like- wise by the diver- sion of the sap into two shoots of almost equal strength. Now supposing this shoot needed for furnishing a va- cant space, it may be laid in full length, and has five buds on it. But if only needed as a fruit-spur for per- manent fertility, it may be cut off at the dotted line at the winter prun- ing. After a time the one or two spurs thus left will become the nucleus and develop into a nest of spurs as already illustrated in Fig. 39. At times, however, these various pinchings result in the production of wood only. In such cases the entire series of growth may be cut back at the winter pruning to a point near the base of the shoot, some- where below No. 1. This wholesale and severe cut- ting back is technically called keeping the wood and fruit buds at home: a point of more moment on walls than on espaliers, as when fruit-spurs get away beyond six inches of the wall surface they have already lost much of the fostering warmth of the wall. Hence the general practice of cutting back the breast-wood, that is, the annual lateral growth of Pears, to within an inch or so of the main branches in the autumn, unless
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