CHERRIES PRUNING AND TRAINING. 



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Fig. 46. SHORTENING, DISBUDDING AND PINCHING, ALSO THINNING FHUIT. RIGHT AND WRONG PBACTICB. 



References : N, one year's shoot, pruning (wood) buds at the end and base only ; if shortened it must be at the 

 bar. 0, one year's shoot with blossom and wood buds ; y, right pruning (wood) buds ; z, wrong pruning (blossom) buds. 

 P, one year's shoot, all wood buds, not shortened or disbudded ; result in the following year growths in shadow. 

 Q, result of shortening the shoot P to the bar ; a, basal shoot, pinched at about 12 inches (bar) before buds assumed 

 the blossom character ; b, leafless side shoot pinched wood buds at the extremity and base only, not shortened ; c, 

 extension shoot, wood buds at the end and base only, shortened (bar) wrong practice, should be left entire ; d, ovoid black 

 patches indicate disbudded growth on previous year's shortened shoot ; e, shoots pinched at third leaf to form spurs ; 

 /, side shoots shortened (wrongly) after buds had been transformed into blossom buds, terminal wood buds cut away, 

 all others blossom buds, except basal. R, results of previous year's (Q) practice ; g, pinched previous year's shoot 

 bearing fruit, unthinned ; h, extremity growth to attract sap to fruit ; i, succession shoots, pinched at 12 inches, and 

 to one leaf of subsequent growth ; j, pinched previous year's shoot fruiting, thinned, growth at extremity and successional 

 shoot (i) from base, pinched ; k, shortened (wrongly) previous year's extension shoot bearing fruit ; I, shoot from base, 

 unpinched ; m, previous year's side shoots (wrongly stopped to blossom buds) bearing fruit; n, successional shoots 

 from their bases, pinched. 1, Abortive fruit, dropping, stoneless. 2, Eipe fruit from unthinned shoot. 3, Ripe 

 cherry from thinned trusses, double diameter, four times the flesh of unthinned. NOTE. The bud y in ought to 

 have been more pointed a wood bud ; the bud z more bold and round a blossom bud. 



