Productive orcharding, modern methods of growing and marketing fruit . f one year treesAvas from nothing to $15 per hundred Avith an average of $ (h) The freight is less. This is not an important matter butis worth considering, particularly when the stock comes a longdistance. (c) Only thrifty trees are salable at one year; that is, a treemust be a good, groAvthy plant to reach a salable size in one is certainly important. It is doubtful if a stunted treeever becomes as vigorous and thrifty as one Avhich has never hada set-back. (d) The tree can be headed at any desired height
Productive orcharding, modern methods of growing and marketing fruit . f one year treesAvas from nothing to $15 per hundred Avith an average of $ (h) The freight is less. This is not an important matter butis worth considering, particularly when the stock comes a longdistance. (c) Only thrifty trees are salable at one year; that is, a treemust be a good, groAvthy plant to reach a salable size in one is certainly important. It is doubtful if a stunted treeever becomes as vigorous and thrifty as one Avhich has never hada set-back. (d) The tree can be headed at any desired height AA-hile thetwo year tree has had its head formed by the nurser\^man and itis difficult to change this height. This argument is especiallyimportant where one v/ants very Ioav heads, as the writer one attempts to form a veiy low head, say 18 inches, on a tAvo AGE OF TREES 41 year tree that was headed at 30 inches by the nurseryman, he doesso by cutting off all the branches and leaving only 18 inches ofthe old trunk. He has therefore taken off all the vigorous,. Fig. 9.—Nursery tree with a poor best way to tre-it such a tree is to cutout all but one branch. Fig. 10.—A nursery tree that is tooheavy. Over-grown trees like this are notas good as those of medium size. one-year-old buds and left nothing but dormant buds. The re-sult will be that when the tree starts, instead of making a well-shaped head as a one year tree would, it throws out branchesirregularly all the way up the trunk wherever there happens tobe a bud that is reasonably vigorous, and consequently one hasa poor, misshapen tree. (e) The younger tree will stand transplanting better thanthe older one. This is probably not an important point, but age 42 VARIETIES AND NURSERY STOCK seems as important with apple trees or pear trees as with cabbageplants or celery plants, where it is recognized as being of practi-cal importance. Older Trees.—On the other side of the question the writerhas never seen bu
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