408 



PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF IMU'XING 



around the base of the trunk and water sprouts on the 

 main branches (Fig. 32). 



317. Successful cases. While it is a fact that because 

 of such reasons as those given above, attempts to reno- 

 vate or rejuvenate neglected orchards would often prove 

 unremunerative, especially in the hands of an inexperi- 

 enced fruit grower, it is nevertheless true that in the older 

 settled parts of the country, where orchards were planted 



FIG. 318 ORCHARD BEFORE RENEWAL OR RENOVATION 



by a former generation and neglected by the present one, 

 countless orchards which for years had not merely been 

 practically profitless to the owners, but had also been a 

 menace to the neighboring plantations because they were 

 breeders of insects and diseases, have been re-established 

 on a profitable basis by judicious rejuvenation, soil fer- 



