THE KADOTA FIG 



be retained as fruit producers and shortened or remoVed another season, for 

 you will always have plenty of cutting to do on sturdy growths. 



Always keep the center of your tree open. The bigger the tree the 

 greater the opening should be. A crop will ripen in the center of an open 

 tree, and none to mention in a jungle. 



Keep your trees low. Remove all upper branches that are out of easy 

 reach of a picker standing on a 4-foot ladder, or within reach of picker stand- 

 ing in the center of your tree. 



Remove branches that grow into the ground. Cause your tree by priming 

 to have its greatest circumference at a point within reach of a picker of 



Kadota Fig: Third pruning. 34 months after planting-. The "bush" effect, so 

 essential for economy in gathering fresh fruit, is being' obtained by cor- 

 rect pruning. 



average height standing on the ground; curving inward and downward to- 

 ward the trunk, that lower branches may not grow to such an extent as to im- 

 pede picking when a ladder is used, and upper branches must be reached. 



Study your tree; do not hesitate to remove a big branch to induce new 

 growths to take its place when it has outgrown its 'usefulness, and always 

 keep your trees low. Reducing height of tree eliminates the use of ladders to 

 a great degree and reduces cost of rathering fresh fruit, be it Smyrna, Mis- 

 cicn or Kadota. 



Summer pruning by pinching off terminal bud is not good practice ; a cluster 

 of limbs will rpring out where the bud is pinched; cut away 6 or 8 inches or 

 more, and 1 mbs will come distributed along, back on the parent stock. 



