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Pruning An Art, Etc. 



Continued from page 10 



however, upon the varieties and cH- 

 iiiafic conditions. Then by pruning the 

 Irees they will proceed to put out ;i 

 (■(inespondingly greater number of 

 liuit si)urs for the next season's crop, 

 ir you prune in summer during the vig- 

 orous growing season, particularly the 

 latter part of it, you will be liable to 

 get a paint-brush effect at or near 

 where you make your cutting. Tbeie 

 will only be about a month's time dur- 

 ing which you can get the residt 

 sought in sununer pruning, and that 

 thne starts, as stated, after the terminal 

 buds are well developed. If you in- 

 tend to do sununer pruning, do not 

 piune in the spring. Except this. You 

 can cut off ternnnal limbs and branches 

 in the spring and benefd your trees by 

 doing if, but you nuist not cut off these 

 lerminal branches when doing sunnuei' 

 Ijruning. That is one thing you nuisl 

 not do, for the reason, as I have told 

 hereinbefore, the fruit depends upon 

 the leaves for size, texture and flavor. 

 Now if you cut off these terminal 

 branches, you defoliate the tree to just 

 Ihat extent and the fruit on that part 

 of the branch which is left will be de- 

 I)rived of the necessary nourishment to 

 mature it. Let your work be the re- 

 moval of entire branches and sub- 

 lateral limbs. In other words, a thin- 

 ning out of the body of the tree, and 

 you will get the effect desired if the 

 work is done at the right time. The 

 forcing of fruit production by sununer 

 pruning is being practiced more and 

 more as the years go by. Growers are 

 getting out of the "landscape-garden" 

 orchard idea, for when they can make 

 their orchard jjroduce as nnich in 

 twenty years as it otherwise would in 

 forty years, which it will do with 

 l)roper pruning, they practice it, pocket 

 the profits, dig up the old orchard when 

 it ceases to be productive and set out 

 a new one. 



There is one more thing I want to 

 mention, and that is the so-called 

 "watersprouts." Generally, whenever 

 a tiee has been severely pruned, a large 

 number of sprouts will start out from 

 the body or framework of the tree. It 

 is safe to presume that a large majority 

 of these sprouts have grown from what 

 is termed "adventitious buds," that is, 

 buds that have been "produced out of 

 normal and regular order" by a super- 

 abundance of vitality in the body of the 

 Irce, caused by the heavy pruning. Foi- 

 Ihe reason that some of these sprouts 

 grow very rapidly and late in the sea- 

 son, their wood is soft and the buds on 

 them are sometimes not well developed, 

 is perhaps the reason why they aie 

 called "watersprouts." I have pruned 

 and develoi)ed lind)S that produced 

 fancy fruit from these desjjised si)rouls. 

 1 have made top-giafls and loot-gr.ifls 

 from watersprouts, the buds of which 

 were very poorly develoi)c(l, and which 

 made as good a growth as any of the 

 grafts. So if you can use any of these 

 as a limb to fill u[) an open space in a 

 tree to which you can direct it by cut- 

 ling the proper bud do so. Of the bal- 



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For the lawn or driveway, English Walnut is 

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 thriving under the same conditions, and pro 

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