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    A Guide to Pruning Fruit Trees for a Productive Orchard
    A Guide to Pruning Fruit Trees for a Productive Orchard
    A Guide to Pruning Fruit Trees for a Productive Orchard
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    A Guide to Pruning Fruit Trees for a Productive Orchard

    By Fred Coleman Sears

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    This vintage text contains a detailed guide to pruning fruit trees, and includes information on pruning equipment, common problems, correct methods of pruning, and more. This accessible and profusely illustrated guide contains all the information needed for successful pruning, and will be of considerable utility to the modern fruit grower. The chapters of this book include: 'How Trees Bear their Fruit', 'How Peaches are Borne', 'The Quince', 'General Principles of Pruning', 'Pruning Tools', 'Pruning Saws', 'Pruning Shears', 'Actual Pruning', 'Young Trees', 'Bearing Trees', 'Time to Prune', 'How to Prune', and 'Dressings for Wounds'. We are republishing this antiquarian book now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on growing fruit.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateMay 31, 2013
    ISBN9781473389045
    A Guide to Pruning Fruit Trees for a Productive Orchard

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      A Guide to Pruning Fruit Trees for a Productive Orchard - Fred Coleman Sears

      Pruning

      PRUNING

      No other operation connected with growing an orchard can compare in interest with pruning. It requires more knowledge, more experience, and more thought than any other orchard work. Probably it is also true that we know less about it (or think we know more things that are not so) than about most other operations. Yet books have been written and might still be written about what is known of the art and science of pruning.

      FIG. 46.—A young apple tree started on the wrong road by bad pruning. All the fruit spurs have been removed from the lower branches.

      In the present chapter we shall attempt merely to understand a few of the most universally accepted general principles and to bring out some of the practical details of pruning our common orchard fruits.

      How Trees Bear their Fruit.—One of the first things for the would-be pruner to acquire is a thorough understanding of the way in which the different orchard trees bear their fruit. Many a good apple tree has had its usefulness curtailed because the man who pruned it did not realize the vital importance of the little crooked spurs along its branches, but insisted in clearing them off to make the tree look more neat. Figure 46 shows an excellent example of a young apple tree which has been thus started on the wrong road, and Figure 94 shows an old orchard which has travelled that road for years, in fact it has travelled it so long that it would be difficult to get it onto any other road.

      In view of the importance of this side of the question, it may be worth while to begin by summing up briefly the method of fruit-bearing in each of the principal orchard fruits.

      The apple and pear may be discussed together since their plan of bearing is practically identical. These two fruits bear almost altogether on

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