Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . LATER. By the second year my trees should ingeneral present the form of figure 2. Then,at some time before the buds begin to swell,I would prune as indicated by the cross I04 POPULAR GARDENING. April, lines in tliis figure, always cutting to anoutside bud on tlie branch, particularly inupright growing varieties, so as to spreadthe tree as much as possible for admittingair and sunlight. How much to cut fromeach branch is hard to determine on , like bread-making, wants consid
Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . LATER. By the second year my trees should ingeneral present the form of figure 2. Then,at some time before the buds begin to swell,I would prune as indicated by the cross I04 POPULAR GARDENING. April, lines in tliis figure, always cutting to anoutside bud on tlie branch, particularly inupright growing varieties, so as to spreadthe tree as much as possible for admittingair and sunlight. How much to cut fromeach branch is hard to determine on , like bread-making, wants consider-able good judgment applied. My practiceusually is to take off from one-quarter toone-third of the previous years growth, cut- in from fifteen to twenty days the Celeryseedlings will be up thick as grass ifthere has been life in the seed. For the past twenty-five years we havepracticed this plan, or at least what answersthe same purpose when done on a largescale, and have not once failed. Last sea-son we sowed forty pounds of seed, cover-ing about four acres, which produced nearlyfive million
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