272 Practical Orcharding On Rough Lands. 



varieties (especially of the longer keeping 

 sorts) that should be left on the tree until the 

 seeds are fully ripe and the cases have colored. 



Make Several Pickings.— There are some 

 varieties of apples which will pay especially 

 well to pick several times. The Rome Beauty 

 is one which we find pays to go over the trees 

 as soon as there are some well colored speci- 

 mens. If this is not done, many will drop and 

 be lost. Again if the trees are very full wc 

 may be able to lighten their load and whenever 

 the least weight is taken from their bending 

 branches they change their position, thus allow- 

 ing the sun to reach many fruits that have been 

 partially, or quite covered before. Where this 

 has been practiced we find that the quantity of 

 no. twos have been very materially reduced. 

 As this thinning process (for that is what it is) 

 goes on, the remaining fruits grow very rapidly. 

 It frequently happens that apples which have 

 to be classed as no. twos when picked with the 

 early ripening specimens would have made 

 good no. ones, and sometimes fancy, simply by 

 allowing them to remain on the tree until they 

 had been given a chance to develop and ripen. 



There are few of us who would go to our 

 peach trees and gather all the fruit at a single 

 picking. Yet we persist in taking the apples 



