The peach and nectarine : their history, varieties, and cultivation . Pia. 43. former, summer pinching the latter, and either method forces thetree to produce fertile shoots. Another reason for pruning is the maintenance of a supply of fruit-bearing wood all over the tree. Peach trees bear only or chiefly on theprevious years wood. They may be spurred; but the system is so littleused that it is scarcely known in England. The fact, however, that peach wood only fruits once, to put the matterin its broadest light, must of necessity cause much pruning, and callsfor much skill in the opera
The peach and nectarine : their history, varieties, and cultivation . Pia. 43. former, summer pinching the latter, and either method forces thetree to produce fertile shoots. Another reason for pruning is the maintenance of a supply of fruit-bearing wood all over the tree. Peach trees bear only or chiefly on theprevious years wood. They may be spurred; but the system is so littleused that it is scarcely known in England. The fact, however, that peach wood only fruits once, to put the matterin its broadest light, must of necessity cause much pruning, and callsfor much skill in the operation. The peach prnner is compelled not onlyto prune for the present but for the future. Figs. 42 and 43 give illus-trations of this dual purpose of pruning. If Fig. 42 were left full lengththere would be an excess of fruit, as well as a crop of wood producedwhere it was worse than useless. In many cases, too, the wood itself 208 THE PEACH AND NECTABINB. would be bad. The tops of long shoots are often most imperfectlyripened in our climate. This is one natural mode
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