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A local packing house boxed Ihe fruit 

 for shipment free of charge and the 

 use of the truck and driver for the long 

 journey was contributed by a Los An- 

 geles firm. 



There was a unanimous response to 

 the suggestion, "Your Turn Next," in 

 every town where slops were made, all 

 of which were referred to the Director 

 of the Department of Military Relief of 

 the Pacific Division Headquarters, Mr. 

 Walter M. Case, who gave advice con- 

 cerning the hospitals where such gifts 

 would be acceptable. Not that there is 

 any danger tliat fruit would ever come 

 amiss, for the demand invariably ex- 

 ceeds the supply, but in order to insure 



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an equal distribution of Ihc luscious 

 food to every one impartially. 



It is siii'e to say tliat in the cilies 

 where llie principal slops were made 

 the passage of the Red Cross Orange 

 Van (lid more to make llie housewives 

 and r( slauranteurs think of desserts and 

 salads in terms of fruit than the most 

 temjiling window displays or carefully 

 worked out "psychological advertising 

 appeals." 



Wendell P. Chambers, an overseas 

 man and member of the Alhambra Post, 

 No. 139, was in charge of the truck and 

 made the official presentation to the 

 Red Cross Field Director upon arriving 

 at Letterman. 



Some Brief Observations on Summer Pruning 



SUMMER pruning is a subject on 

 which there are many ideas. The 

 well known statement of fruit men to 

 prune in winter for wood and in sum- 

 mer for fruit, does not, according to 

 Professor C. I. Lewis, always work to 

 advantage. Sunmier pruning, accord- 

 ing to this authority, may be for wood 

 or it may be for fruit, the amount and 

 time of pruning and the age and kind 

 of trees being the determining factors 

 in summer pruning. In discussing this 

 subject further Professor Lewis says: 



"Summer pruning for wood applies 

 especially to the first three years of 

 the tree's life, or, in some cases, to trees 

 somewhat older that have been over- 

 primed in the winter, and, if allowed to 

 grow until the succeeding spring, will 

 become too rangy. In summer pruning 

 young trees I would suggest that very 

 little of it be done the first year, the 

 pruning this season to consist of the 

 removal of undesirable buds and young 

 shoots which, if allowed to grow, would 

 take nourishment away from the 

 branches that should be retained for the 

 framework of the tree. This pruning 

 should always be light in character. 

 During the second and third years of 

 the tree's growth some growers feel 

 that they can gain an entire season by 

 pruning in June, and to some extent 

 this is true. 



"As soon as the leading branches have 

 made a growth sufficient to allow the 

 proper formation of the second later- 

 als, these leading branches should be 

 pinched back; and in place of a strong 

 terminal growth there will be secured 

 lateral branches on each leader and by 

 fall they will have made sufficient 

 growth so that practically an entire 

 season has been gained in forming the 

 framework of the tree. The amount of 

 this pinching or pruning back should 

 depend upon the variety and the growth 

 the trees have made. It is probably 

 better if it can be done without remov- 

 ing large quantities of foliage. Some 

 people believe that such removal devi- 

 talizes the tree. However, this is a 

 point which is open for further investi- 

 gation. Where the pruning is done 

 early, as in May or June, such trees 

 will have ample opportunity to harden 

 up their growth sufficiently before 

 winter. 



"Wlien we speak of summer pruning, 

 most growers think at once that we 

 mean only pruning to induce fruitful- 

 ness, and undoubtedly most of the sum- 

 mer pruning that is done has this one 

 object in view. In glancing over the 

 literature on summer i)runing, one is 

 impressed by the fact that there seem 

 to be several theories. 



"One is that summer pruning changes 

 leaf buds into fruit buds. Another is 

 that summer pruning causes the imme- 

 diate formation of fruit buds. These 

 theories are probably incorrect. With 

 most varieties of pomaceous fruits, 

 such as apples and pears, I doubt if 

 summer pruning will give very immedi- 

 ate effects as far as the succeeding fruit 

 crop is concerned. I am inclined to be- 

 lieve it will affect more the crop of the 

 second and third years and will induce 

 some of the younger wood to come into 

 heavy fruiting earlier than otherwise. 



"Probably in the case of certain stone 

 fruits like peaches and cherries and 

 those varieties of pomaceous fruits that 

 bear on terminal buds on one-year-old 

 wood, or even on the current year's 

 growth, fruit may follow the pruning of 

 such varieties. But we can also answer 

 that you get this fruit if you don't 

 prune. Until more careful experiments 

 have been conducted and good checks 

 are kept, it will be impossible to prove 

 what summer pruning will do for such 

 varieties. Many growers feel that with 

 peaches it is an advantage to prune in 

 early summer, not so much to induce 

 fruitfulness, because the peach bears 

 only on one-year-old wood on the one 

 hand or too weak wood on the other 

 does not give an even distribution of 

 large fruits. 



"In summer pruning of pomaceous 

 fruits it has been noticed that such 

 pruning thickens up the wood very ma- 

 terially, which means that there is an 

 accumulation of tissue, and very apt to 

 give rise to fruiting wood; but it will 

 affect the spurs that are growing next 

 year. If you examine the trees care- 

 fully at the time the summer pruning 

 is done you will find that the fruit buds 

 and leaf buds are already there. An 

 accumulation of tissues, however, will 

 in all probability strengthen the fruit- 

 ing areas." 



J\ine, ig20 



Establislies String of Warehouses. 

 The American Fruit Growers, Inc., 

 which last year acquired a number of 

 large orchard tracts in the Northwest 

 and is the largest orchard holding con- 

 cern in the world, will establish a 

 branch at Zillah, Washington. Other 

 warehouses to be operated by the new 

 concern in that state will be located at 

 Yakima, Grandview and Selah. 



Valuable Reports. 

 The annual reports of the Washing- 

 ton State Horticultural Association, the 

 Idaho State Department of Agriculture 

 and the Western Walnut Association, 

 recently issued, are of valuable interest 

 in their respective fields. All of these 

 reports contain nmch that the fruit and 

 nut grower will find handy to refer to 

 and studv. 



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