HOW TO PRUNE 



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105. Well-formed peach trees in the eastern region. 



should be saved. Thinning the fruit-buds thins the fruit. 

 In some fruit plants, the bearing wood is on canes that live 



or that bear for 

 a single year 

 only. Of such 

 are blackberries 

 and raspberries. 

 The raspberry 

 cane that springs 

 from the root 

 this year, bears 

 fruit next year, 

 and then dies or 

 becomes so weak 

 as to be worth- 

 less; and the 

 cane that comes 

 up next year bears fruit the year after, thus maintaining the 

 succession. Therefore, every fall or spring the canes that 

 have borne should be cut away near the ground; a certain 

 number (four to eight) of the new ones should be allowed to 

 remain; and these new ones are later cut back to make them 

 upright and to concentrate the bearing area. (Figs. 106, 107.) 

 133. Shrubs and trees grown for bloom may bear their 

 flowers from winter or resting buds, or from growing shoots 

 of the season; if the former, they bloom very early in 

 spring, as lilac, flowering almond, deutzia, weigela, for- 

 sythia or golden bell; if the latter, they bloom later after 

 active twig growth begins, as rose of sharon or hibiscus, 

 hydrangea, privet, mock orange, rose acacia, most honey- 

 suckles. If it is desired not to remove the bloom, those 

 bushes that bloom from resting buds should be pruned 

 or headed back (if at all) after flowering or when in leaf; 

 the other class should be pruned before flowering, or when 

 the plant is dormant. 



