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easil>' done. It does not iippeiir from 

 any information that we now have that 

 there is a storage of particiihir food for 

 fruit buds and of other food for wood 

 growth, but rather that stored food is 

 quite as available for one sort of growth 

 as for the other, yet it is generally 

 supposed that the kind of food given 

 plants influences the amount stored, 

 and, consequently, the nundjer of fruit 

 buds formed or the amount of growth 

 made. Briefly, the behavior of foods 

 upon manner of plant growth is sup- 

 posed to be this: An abundance of food, 

 especially if it contains nitrogen, and 

 if at the same time there be a plentiful 

 supply of water, is most favorable to 

 the formation and growth of cells, 

 hence of wood and leaf growth. If the 

 amount of food be decreased, and more 

 particularly if the nitrogen as compared 

 with the potash and phosijhate be de- 

 creased, and especially if tliere be an 

 increase of light and air, wood growth 

 is lessened and the number of fruit 

 buds is materially increased. Some- 

 times the excess of food and moisture 

 is already in the soil, and the problem 

 then is to reduce the quantities and so 

 bring on fruit-bud formation. The 

 orthodox method of reducing the (juan- 

 tity of plant food and soil moisture is 

 to sow a grain crop in the orchard. 

 The trees under such treatment cease 

 to make wood growth and use the 

 assimilated substances in the making of 

 fruit buds. This procedure, it should 

 be said at once, is seldom necessary. 

 The fact that leaf and wood growth 

 and fruit bearing in plants are opposed 



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to each other is well recognized by 

 fruit growers; but the knowledge is 

 <iuite too often wrongly used, exempli- 

 fying again that "a little learning is a 

 dangerous thing." 'fhus, to bring trees 

 into beaiing is (tflen the owner's excuse 

 for double-cropping orchards, pulling 

 an orchard down to sod and withhold- 

 ing proper cultivation. 



Pruning often materially aids in 

 causing the storing of i)lanl food for 

 llie formation of fruit buds. One of the 

 general aims of priming is to regidate 

 the croj) of fruit by removing parts of 

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store the necessary food. The theory 

 of ijruning to cause formation of fruit 

 buds is simple, but the practice is not 

 so simple. The eflecis of pruning are 

 so varied under dilferent conditions 

 that it is exceedingly dillicull to give 

 directions as to its use in inlluencing 

 the setting of buds, lleading-in may 

 sometimes be used lo advantage in 

 pi'uning for fruil. II consists in culling 

 back >oung, unbranching shoots which 

 set few or no fi'uil buds. Heading-in is 

 a necessity with dwarf trees. Practice 

 (lilfei"s as to whethei- the operation 

 should be performed in sunmier or 



