producing areas and these will eventually show what is difficult 

 to describe in writing. Some growers may say this is nothing new 

 but this exact type of pruning is not being done in any orchard 

 that I know of . 



Can we afford to use ladders in peach orchards? If we want 

 to eliminate the ladder in the peach orchard, it is obvious the 

 tree must be held down to size. The band of productive fruiting 

 wood must be held down to a maximum height of seven feet at prun- 

 ing. As fruit is produced these limbs will bend down so no ladders 

 are required to harvest the fruit. Also, the hand thinning can be 

 done from the ground. This is a distinct advantage. 



To prune a tree to the low--no 1 adder--system , one must do a 

 careful job and train men to understand the principle and objective 

 Unless a careful job is done, this system cannot be successful. 



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Pomological Paragraph 



Pruning Peaoh Trees: Peach trees generally made excessive growth 

 in 1967, and those in the formative stage (1-4 years) will need 

 particular attention to eliminate weak crotches that have developed. 

 Scaffold branches with undesirable crotches, but which are well 

 located within the general periphery of the tree, may be left but 

 should be pruned severely so that they will be dwarfed. Eventually, 

 they may be removed if lateral branches develop that might make 

 suitable replacements. 



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VERMONT ORCHARD GROWTH 



C. Lyman Calahan, Extension Horticulturist 

 University of Vermont 



A glance at the rate Vermont apple growers have been planting 



trees in recent years will give the best clue to why the state's 



apple production has been increasing and is expected to reach aver- 

 age crop-sizes of \h million bushels by around 1970. 



Since 1955, Vermont orchardists have been adding trees to 

 their orchards at the rate of about 15,000 per year, and during 

 this time only one planting has been made by a newcomer to the in- 

 dustry. The production from these young trees is beginning to add 

 up, and it contributed substantially to the 1,300,(00 bushel apple 

 crop in 1967, the largest crop since the "Farm Orchard" lost out 



