Pruning op Deciduous Fruit Trees. 



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the thining- has to be resorted to after the crop has set. It will be 

 noticed that the laterals are present close to the ground as well as 

 near the top. These do not prevent constant cnltivation with animals 

 in the orchard. 



Fig. 24.— Illustrating two-year-old bearing wood (on the sides), also non-bearing wood 

 of one year (centre) found on Domestic Plums. 



The Plitm. 



The fruit is grown very successfully throughout the whole 

 Union. The genus Prunus includes many types and hybrids, but so 

 far growers have not given much thought to the scientific side of 

 their culture. The Japanese hybrids have proved themselves so 

 adaptable to our variable conditions that they are being planted to 



