April, 1910 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



105 



Some Comments on^Pruning iy 



Editor, The Canadian Horticulturist : 

 In an article entitled "Pruning the Or- 

 chard" that appeared in the March issue, 

 page 58, the writer says that the best time 

 to prune is in June or first of July "when 

 the sap is done running. Is tue sap aone 

 running then? Mow is it that we do our 

 budding in July and August, when the sap 

 is running freely between bark and woodi" 



There is not much growth after that and 

 the wounds made by pruning at that season 

 are not healed till the next season, while 11 

 the cutting is done immediately before 

 growth begins, the healing process is carried 

 on all through the growing season and by the 

 fall all small wounds are healed completely, 

 .vjy opinion is that pruning should be done 

 at a time that will permit of the healing 

 of the wounds in the quickest possible time, 

 and that time is just at the beginning of the 

 growing season. 



On the other tiaud, if we wish to give a 

 tree a checK and cause it to come into bear- 

 ing or to set more fruit than it has been 

 doing, we may either let the ground go to 

 sod, or prune it quite severely about the 

 first of July, and this causes it to throw the 

 energy, that would otherwise be devoted to 

 the wood that has been cut out, into mak- 

 ing fruit buds on the wood that has been 

 left. 



The statement, "keep the tops open, and 

 let in the sun," is indefinite. We have had 

 men doing that around here for years, and 

 they have ruined hundreds of trees. In 

 pruning a tree, we should make it open 

 enough to admit the light and air through- 

 out the head, but we should not begin on the 

 inside of the tree to prune, but rather on 

 the outside, cutting out or shortening cross 

 brandies, till thin enough to let in the light ; 

 rnit by no means should we cut out all fruit- 

 ing wood in the centre of the tree, so it will 

 ear all its fruit on the tips of the branches. 



The writer says: "Out out all suckers and 

 branches that spread over." What he means 

 by "spread over," I do not know, but there 

 are thousands of trees throughout our coun- 

 try that should not have the suckers cut 

 out of them, but should rather have them 

 trained into fruiting wood to properly bal- 

 ance the tree. In fact there are thousands 

 of trees that should be pruned back to en- 

 courage them to throw out suckers, to be 

 trained into fruiting wood in the centre of 

 the heads. — W. J. Kerr, Ottawa. 



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