CHAPTER XL 



THINNING. 



PROFUSION OF FRUIT-BUDS WISE PROVISION AGAINST ACCIDENTS 

 PERIOD OF MATURITY OF PLANTS MORPHOLOGY THE YOUNG 

 PLANT GROWS BY DEVELOPMENT OF STEM AND BRANCHES LEAF 

 BUDS ALL POINTED THE PERIOD OF ADOLESCENCE VARIES 

 THE CENTURY PLANT A DEFINITE PERIOD FOR EACH VARIETY 

 HOW DIMINISHED OR EXTENDED STARVING CROWDING CUT- 

 TING THE ROOTS OLD OR UNCONGENIAL STOCKS AT MATURITY 

 AN ACCUMULATION OF NUTRITIVE MATTER PRESERVING THE BAL- 

 ANCE BETWEEN GROWTH AND FRUITAGE WE DO NOT THIN FRUIT 

 ENOUGH TREES EXHAUST THEMSELVES BIENNIAL BEARERS 

 ANNUAL BEARERS DESIRABLE DISBUDDING FIELD'S HEDGES OF 

 PEARS REMOVE PORTIONS OF FRUIT CUTTING-IN THE SHOOTS 

 TO REDUCE FRUIT DR. HULL AND OTHERS THINNING THE 

 STRAWBERRY GOOSEBERRY GRAPE THINNING APPLES BY 

 THRESHING THE TREES BY SEVERE WINTER PRUNING. 



Every person who has looked at a bearing fruit tree in 

 the winter season, must have been struck with wonder at 

 the great profusion of fruit-buds with which it was cloth- 

 ed; they are crowded along the slender spray of some 

 varieties as thickly as a necklace of beads, or still more 

 abundantly, like clusters of pearls, they are crowded to- 

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