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t|uirc(l. However, suninier pruning 

 should be more widely practiced by or- 

 chardists, for it not only has a tendency 

 to bring the tree into earlier bearing, 

 bnt actually increases the yield and 

 admits sunlight, which colors the fruit 

 more highly, as indicated in the tables 

 presented below. If summer pruning 

 is followed, the best time to perform 

 the operation is the latter part of July 

 or early August, or about ten days after 

 the terminal buds have set. At this 

 time the tree has practically finished 

 growing for the year. Success will de- 

 pend largely upon when the work is 

 performed for the following reasons: 

 If the pruning is done before the tree 

 has ceased growing, it will have a 

 tendency to force out the adventitious 

 buds and buds below the cuts, which 

 results in a growth of shoots. On the 

 other hand, if done too late in the sea- 

 son, no opportunity is given the buds 

 to swell into fruit buds, which is the 

 object sought by summer pruning. 

 Where summer pruning is practiced, 

 the tendency is to produce fruit rather 

 than wood. The principle involved is 

 as follows: During the early suuuner, 

 nnich of the food is used by the tree in 

 throwing out leaves and making new 

 growth. By removing part of the 

 growth at just the proper time, some of 

 this reserve food material will be de- 

 posited in and behind the buds, causing 

 them to increase in size considerablv, 

 and thus producing fruit buds. 



During the past few years the Hor- 

 ticultural Department of the University 

 of Idaho has been conducting experi- 

 ments to determine whether summer 

 pruning presented any advantage over 

 that of winter pinning and vice versa. 

 The trees under observation, repre- 

 senting the Wagener, Rome, Grimes and 

 Jonathan varieties, were planted in 

 100.1, and the pruning began that year. 

 The trees in the block set aside for 

 winter pruning have received a mod- 

 erate annual cutting back since the 

 time of planting, while those in another 

 block have been sunnner pruned. The 

 pruning in both cases consisted in 

 shaping the tree and cutting back from 

 one-fourth to one-third of the terminal 

 growth. The trees were all grown un- 

 der like conditions as regards soil and 

 climate without irrigation. 



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