CHAPTER XI. 



THINNING. 



FBOVDBIOK OF FBTnT-BUDS — WISE PROVISION AGAINST AOOIDBNTS — 

 PBBIOD or MA.TDEITT OP PI/ANTS — UOKFHOI.OQT — THB TOUNO 

 PI.ANT OEOWS BT DEVELOPMENT OP STEM AND EBANOHES — I.BAP 

 BUDS ALI. POINTED — THE PEKIOD OP ADOLESCENCE VABIES — 

 THE OENTDBT PLANT — A DEFDtlTE PERIOD POR EACH VARIETT — 

 HOW DIMINISHED OR EXTENDED — STARVINO — OBOWDINQ — OUT- 

 TINO THE BOOTS — OLD OR DNCONOENIAL STOCKS — AT MATURITT 

 AN ACCUMULATION OP NUTRITIVE MATTER — PBE8ERVINO THE BAL- 

 ANCE BETWEEN GROWTH AND PBUITAQE — WE DO NOT THIN FRUIT 

 ENOUGH — TREES EXHAUST THEMSELVES — BIENNIAL BEARERS — 

 ANNUAL BEARERS DESIRABLE — DISBUDDLNG — FIELD'S HEDGES OF 

 FEARS — REMOVE PORTIONS OF FRUIT -^ CUTTINQ-IN THE SHOOTS 

 TO REDUCE FBUIT — DB. HULL AND OTHERS — THINNING THE 

 STBAWBEBBT — OOOSEBEBBT — GRAPE — THINNINa APPLES BT 

 THRESHING THE TBEES — BT 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 frait-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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