Quince cultureAn illustrated hand-book for the propagation and cultivation of the quince with descriptions of its varieties, insect enemies, diseases, and their remedies . acts connected with pruning, because it enables askillful cultivator to equalize the rate of growth of allparts of a tree. This shortening of the growing twic^^s should be donewhen they are so tender they can be pinclied off with thethumb and finger. If the next bud iiiimcvli-itoly pushesinto another extension of tiic shoot, it be necessaryto pinch off again a little further on, even to the third 72 QUIXCE CULTURE. or f
Quince cultureAn illustrated hand-book for the propagation and cultivation of the quince with descriptions of its varieties, insect enemies, diseases, and their remedies . acts connected with pruning, because it enables askillful cultivator to equalize the rate of growth of allparts of a tree. This shortening of the growing twic^^s should be donewhen they are so tender they can be pinclied off with thethumb and finger. If the next bud iiiimcvli-itoly pushesinto another extension of tiic shoot, it be necessaryto pinch off again a little further on, even to the third 72 QUIXCE CULTURE. or fourth time. An excess of wood is the occasion oibarrenness oftener than is supposed. The tree exhaustsits strength in sustaining and extending its woody fiberat so many points, that it has little vigor left to formfruit-buds or mature a crop of fruit. Nature intimatesthis sometimes by all at once dropping off all the fruitthat is set after an abundant blossoming. The outerbranches are most fruitful as a rule; and if the head iskept open the fruit is better. The two pictures of one of my trees are an illustrationof such an experience. This tree, now eight years Fig. 48. BAD AND GOOD PRUNING. Fig. OF BAD PRUNING. grew about sixteen inches from the cutting the firstyear, and was then transplanted, and cut back to withinsix inches of the ground. The second year it made agrowth of four shoots of about five feet each ; and these,in turn, were cut back to about three feet, throwing outthe side shoots that form the head. When five years oldit stood eight feet and five inches high before it waspruned. It has borne since it was three years old, thelast crop being one hundred and twenty quinces, the twolargest filling a quart can. The longest shoot grownwith this crop was six feet and four inches, in the midstof several others only a little shorter. PRUNING TUE QUINCE. 73 I have thus far treated of pruning as it should be donewith the knife or shears, before the limbs are
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