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BETTER FRUIT 



December 



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activity is common for the larger 

 branches of last season's growth, and 

 there is no distinct line of deniarka- 

 tion between this and tlie injiu'v reacli- 

 ing down the branches to the large 

 limbs, even to the trunk of the tree. 



Caieful examination of this wood 

 will often reveal the injury within 

 twenty-four hours after it has occurred. 

 The cambium layer of tissue and the 

 sap wood just beneath will be slightly 

 darker in color. When this is found it 

 is a good plan to [)rune the trees mod- 

 erately severely. I)o not attempt to cut 

 out all injured parts. If the injury is 

 so severe as to cause the discoloration 

 of the entire layer of last year's sap 

 and out into the green bark, then all 

 such wood so injured should be re- 

 moved. But in many cases, especially 

 with peach trees, it is advisable to do 

 only moderately heavy pruning. Ex- 

 cessive pruning will cut away the 

 younger wood, carrying the larger part 

 of stored food supply away, and the 

 old wood so injured does not have the 

 capacity of producing advantageous 

 buds, and it may result in the death of 

 the plant. When peach trees are in- 

 jured to the extent of having their 

 small wood killed and larger branches 

 severely injured, it will often result in 

 destroying their entire usefulness, and 

 it is a wise plan to remove them rather 

 than to waste time and energy expect- 

 ing them to revive. 



Another form of winter injury very 

 common with apple trees is tirsf mani- 

 fest by the bark on the trunk and large 

 limbs splitting open. Ordinarily this 

 does not take place until two or three 

 weeks after the real injury has been 

 done. A good illustration of this hap- 

 pened last winter in the Spokane Val- 

 ley, when in March hundreds of tree 

 trunks were found to have tlie bark 

 splitting in a perpendicular line twelve 

 to eighteen inches long. A careful ex- 

 amination of the district and the 

 weather records showed that the in- 

 jury had been done about the latter 

 part of .lanuary, but that swelling of 

 the wood did not take place to a suffi- 

 cient extent to cause the bark to split 

 until March, when the injury became 

 noticeable. This seems to be the re- 

 sult usually of sudden fluctuations of 

 temperature; usually a sudden dro]) in 

 temperature following a few slightly 

 warm days. .\pi)arently the lower part 

 of the trees have had time to fill well 

 with sap when the sudden drop of tem- 

 perature freezes a large amount of 

 water contained in the trunk and bark 

 and in part breaks the tissue. It is 

 found that the cambium layer is broken 

 and nearly all of the cells ruptured. 

 The bark peels very easily and if split 

 with a knife will curl back from the 

 edge of the sjilit. This does not seem to 

 be influenced to any appreciable ex- 

 tent by processes of tillage or cover 

 crop existing in the orchard. 



.Still another form of injury is the 

 collar injury or winter injury, which 

 is probably the result of alternate freez- 

 ing and thawing of the surface of the 

 ground around the base of the tree 

 trunks. This is usually not noticed 



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