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THE FRUIT GARDEN 



Forms of Trees.— For open-air culture the peach is grown as a bush or upon 

 short stems. Upon walls the peach can be grown in trained forms — U or 

 double U, oblique cordons, with three, four, five, or six branches. It is right, 

 however, to remark that this work is long and costly and is only suitable for 



Peach Shoot with 

 Wood Buds only 



Method of Prun- 

 ing THE Peach 

 Practised when 

 the successional 

 Shoot has both 

 Wood Buds and 

 Blossom Buds 



Pruning the Peach 

 Tree so as to Obtain 

 A Fruiting Shoot 

 (Subsequently Cut 

 Away) and a Suc- 

 CESsioNAL Shoot 



the garden of the amateur. For market culture and in cold districts it is often 

 better to restrict the trees to the fan-shape. If any branches perish their places 

 can easily be filled. 



Pruning. — The peach bears fruit upon branches of one year's growth, so 

 that each year fresh shoots must be trained in and old wood removed to 

 make room and to prevent overcrowding. Fruiting shoots are distinguished as 

 follows : Those of average size bearing both wood-buds and fruit-buds, weak 

 shoots with flower-buds and a wood-bud at the extremity only, and short 

 growths with several flower-buds and one wood-bud. As to the pruning, let 

 us first examine the pruning of a two-year-old branch. The object is to get 

 fruit and to introduce a new shoot for the following year. The strongest 

 shoots and also those with all wood-buds (unless they are weak) are cut back ; 



