. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Ghirardelirs Ground Chocolate RHODES DOUBLE CUT . PRUNING S. RHODES MFG. 520 S. DIVISION AVE., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 'TOE only pruner made that cuts from both sides of the hmb and does not bruise the bark. Made in all styles and sizes. All shears delivered free to your door. Write for circular and prices. unpromising future; and third, the drooping wood; all it has is a past. In other words, the staghorn wood is be- ginning to bear, and in the near future will not only produce the most of the prunes on the tree, but also the largest ones. The horizontal wood, while
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Ghirardelirs Ground Chocolate RHODES DOUBLE CUT . PRUNING S. RHODES MFG. 520 S. DIVISION AVE., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 'TOE only pruner made that cuts from both sides of the hmb and does not bruise the bark. Made in all styles and sizes. All shears delivered free to your door. Write for circular and prices. unpromising future; and third, the drooping wood; all it has is a past. In other words, the staghorn wood is be- ginning to bear, and in the near future will not only produce the most of the prunes on the tree, but also the largest ones. The horizontal wood, while still producing lots of prunes, is setting less and less blossoms and is tending to pro- duce small fruit. The drooping wood may bloom, but it is generally too weak to produce fruit, or if it does produce, the fruit will be found to be of inferior quality. The problem of the prune, then, is to keep plenty of staghorn wood coming into the tree, removing the drooping wood. Many of our old prune trees should sacrifice one-fourth to one- half of their wood. Such a removal would immediately revitalize the re- maining spurs and buds left on the trees; more fruit, larger sizes and new, vigorous wood is the result. Much of this drooping wood can be most cheaply and easily removed by putting on an old pair of gloves and simply breaking it out. Where a good vigorous sprout appears on the prune tree, remove some of the older wood next to it and give the sprout a chance to develop. Badly devitalized trees can be dehorned and new sprouts developed into fruitful tops in four years, but this should not be done unless necessary, as a vigorous thinning out will often revitalize many trees without the loss of the crop for three or four years. Magness of the Oregon Station, in his Bud Study, has shown that each branch to a large extent is independent of other branches on the tree and must be pruned as an individual branch, so to speak. We will now consider a few of the questions dealing with the
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