LUX 



LUX 



mentcd in growth beyond ilieir comition natu- 

 ral state, . tcquire that degree of 

 1 rfecuon which ia the case with those of mi 



wths. Tins sometimes happens 

 from excess of nourishment, and sometimes 

 from the nature of th? plants. 



It is produced differently : s iraetimes prevail- 

 ing in the whole plant, sometimes in particular 

 pans, as in some of the shoots, aud frequently 

 in tin. r -Mrs. 



The tirst may be considered such as shoot 

 much stronger than plants of the same species 

 generally do, and happens both in herbaceous 

 plants and tries, 8cc. which never attain per- 

 fection so soon :<s the more moderate growers : 

 thus many sort- of esculent plant- which shoot 

 luxuriantly to leaves and stalks, &c. as cucum- 

 bers, melons, cabbages, cauliflowers, turnip-, 



radishes, beans, peas, cee.. never arrive BO 

 soon to perfection as those of moderate srrowth; 

 and such plants as appear to be naturally of 

 themselves of a very luxuriant nature, are very 

 improper to stand, from which to save seed for 

 ful ire increase. 



This is also the case in fruit-trees ; as such 

 - ire very luxuriant shooters are much longer 

 before they attain a bearing state than those 

 of middling growth; and they never bear so 

 plentifully, or have the fruit attain such per- 

 fection. This luxuriance is frequently acquired 

 bj unskilful pruning, especially in wall-trees, 

 N:e., as it is often the practice, when wall or 



alier trees assume -ueh a growth, to cut all 

 tile shoots short; by which, instead of reducing* 

 the tree to a i f state of shooting, it has 



its vigour increased, as too considerabre short- 

 ening of strong shoots promote- their throw- 

 ing out still stronger, and producing more 

 abundant or superfluous wood. Therefore, in 

 pruning very luxuriant espalier and wall-fruit 



s, they should be assisted somewhat i:t 

 their own way, as it were, by iraimni: in plenty 

 or shoots annually for a year or two, to divide 

 the redundancy of sap ; or in the summer and 

 winter primings, always leaving them rather 

 thicker than in the common practice, and 

 mostly at full length, unless it be necessary to 

 shorten such as are of very considerable length, 

 or in some particular part of the tree, to torce 

 out a supply of wood to (ill a vacancy. Some- 

 sorts of fruit-trees should indeed never be gene- 

 rally shortened in the common course of prun- 



. except in casual very extended irregular 



.-. ihs, or occasionally for procuring a supply 

 of wood as mentioned above, i rticuiarly 



,-sary in apples, pears, plums, cherries, 

 and tig-trees; for, if general shortening was to be 

 practised in these sorts, they would continue 

 shooting e\ery year so luxuriantly to wood, that 



they would never form themselves into a proper 

 bearing st i e: even in those I ,- 



ing is necessarily practised in wiutei, .a m< 

 the annual supplies of shoots, .- .a |> acli -, 

 nectarines, ccc, in cases of luxuriant growth, 

 it should be very sparingly performed, the gene- 

 ral shoots not being cut very sh rt, and some 

 of the most vigorous hit almost or quite at the 

 full length. 



I in- is the proper method to reduce luxuriant 

 tree- to a moderate growth, and to a bearing 

 state ; as by training the shoots thicker, and 

 leaving them longer, and continuing it for a 

 year or two, the redundant sap having greater 

 scope to divide itself, cannot break out with 

 that luxuriance, as when it has not half the 

 quantity of wood to supply with nourishment, 

 a- in the case of short pruning. See Emw- 

 her, Wall-treks, and Pruning. 



'1 his state seldom occurs with any continu- 

 ance in standard-tree-, where permitted to take 

 their natural growth, except in casual stran- 

 gling shoots, which should always be taken 

 out. 



Over luxuriant shoots are mostly met with in 

 trees anil shrubs ; but require more particularly 

 to be attended to in the culture of the fruit 

 tree kind, especially those of the wail and espa 

 her sort, which undergo annual pruning. 



They are such as shoot so vieorously ia 

 length and - ibstance, as greatly to^exceed the 

 h ol thos asi ally pr , m 



the same kind of plant or tree, and are some- 

 times general, but in other cases on I v happen 

 to particular shoots in different parts of a tree, 

 8cc. They are discoverable by their extraordi- 

 nary length and thickness, and by their vigour 

 of growth, which always greatly impoverishes 

 tile other more moderate shoots in their neigh- 

 bourhood, and likewise the fruit, \c, as well 

 as often occasions a very irregular gro \ih in the 

 respective trees. Such shoots frequently occur 

 in wall and espalier fruit-trees, and are' the ef- 

 fects of injudicious pruning. \\ hi n liiev are in 

 general wholly so, they should be managed as 

 directed above : but when ouly in particular 

 its here and there in a fruit or other tree or 

 shrub under training, such shoots being of 

 such a very luxuriant n itun . - t i d aw away the 

 nourishment, at the expense of the adj. 



rate shoots, and winch, by their vigorous 

 irregular growth, cannot be trained with any 

 degree of regularity ; they should for the most 

 part, as soon as discoverable, in the summer or 

 winter primings, be cut out, taking them off as 

 close as possible to the part of the branch 

 whence they originate, that no eye may be left 

 i loot again ; unless such a shoot Should rise 

 Ln any part of a tree or shrub, where a further 



