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rUINCIPr.ES AND TRACTICE OF PRUNING 



FIG. 121 

 YEARLING PEACH WITH 

 CENTRAL LEADER 



[Mr. Starns] has ever 



I,') feet in height and 1)"re cnnsiilcrahly 



It mav be stated that the writer [Mr. 

 Starns] is fairly satisfied that peach trees, 

 pruned by the Stringfellow inethod, will 

 li\'e and flourish in Georgia, e\en in stiff 

 clay soil and under adverse meteorological 

 conditions. This statement may also lie 

 extended to cover apples and cherries. 



Dr. J. C. Whitteii concludes from ex- 

 periments and from reports of growers 

 that the method of stub-root prunhig and 

 cutting back to 13 to 18 inches, according 

 lo the Stringfellow plan, has been of 

 great service in .shriwing that it is not 

 necessary to retain anything like the large 

 quantity of fibrous r(.>ots formerly sup- 

 posed to be necessary. 



In the year book of the Netherland 

 Pomological Society§ for l!)n2, A. C. Ide 

 reports experiments on severe pruning of 

 young apple and pear trees at time of 

 transplanting. He used one, two and 



spreading- all kinds of fungous dis- 

 eases and insects ; 6, enabling two 

 and even three-year-old trees to be 

 used for planting as advanta- 

 geously as one-year-old trees, thus 

 saving losses to nurserymen, whi- 

 ordinarily burn such trees. 



Stringfellow* holds that the usual ill 

 success in transplanting the pecan is due 

 entirely to leaving too long a top root. 

 He advises cutting this root to 4 or 5 

 inches and setting the tree at least G inches 

 deeper than before it was taken up. 



The main peach plat used in the ex- 

 periments conducted by H. N. Starnsf to 

 test the Stringfellow plan presented on 

 the wdiolc as hne an appearance as any 

 two-year-olil peach orchard the writer 

 seen. The trees at the time a\cragcd l:i to 

 \-er jOO crates upon one acre. 



FIG. 122 — AFTER PRUN- 

 ING TREE IN FIG. 121. 



* Texas Farm and Ranch, 24. Paf;e 10. 



t Georf^ia Experiment Station, Bulletin 40. The reader will here find a .'series 

 of half-tones illustrating the discussion on the experiments and also numerous 

 articles quoted from the aftricultural press, giving both favorable and unfavorable 

 comment on the theory. 



S Cultura, 14, Page 424. 



