. The fruits and fruit trees of America : or, The culture, propagation and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally, with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country . Fruit-culture; Fruit. THE PEACH. 58S au A peach tree pruned by the shorten- ing-m mode. while we have secured against tl e prevalent evi. we have also provided for the full nourishment of the present year's fruit, and induced a sup- ply of fruit-bearing shoots throughout the tree, for the next season. This course of pruning is fol- lowed reg
. The fruits and fruit trees of America : or, The culture, propagation and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally, with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country . Fruit-culture; Fruit. THE PEACH. 58S au A peach tree pruned by the shorten- ing-m mode. while we have secured against tl e prevalent evi. we have also provided for the full nourishment of the present year's fruit, and induced a sup- ply of fruit-bearing shoots throughout the tree, for the next season. This course of pruning is fol- lowed regularly, every year, for the whole life of the tree. It is done much more rapidly than one would suppose; the pruned wounds are too small to cause any gum to flow; and it is done at the close of winter, when labour is worth least to the culti- vator. The appearance of a tree pruned in this way, after many years of bearing, is a very striking contrast to that of the poor skeletons usually seen. It is, in fact, a fine object, with a thick, low, bushy head, filled with healthy young wood, and in the summer with an abundance of dark-green, healthy foliage, and handsome fruit. Can any intelligent man hesitate abolit adopt- ing so simple a course of treatment to secure such valuable results? We recommend it with entire confidence to the practice of every man in the country that cultivates a peach tree. After he has seen and tasted its good effects, we do net fear his laying it aside.* * WMe this is going through the press, our attention is drawn to the following remarkable examples of the good eflfeots of regular pruning, wbieh we translate ^om the leading Prenelj Journal of Horticulture. "We ask the attention of our readers to these oases, especially after perusing our remarks on the Yellows and its cause: " M. Duvilliers laid before the Royal Society of Horticulture an account of some old peach trees that he had lately seen at the Chateau de Villiera, near Fertfe-Aleps (Se
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