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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
January, 1917 
An Attractive Home Means 
Contentment 
Keep the children at home by making them 
proud of it. The most effective and eco- 
nomical way to do this, is to beautify the 
lawn. Careful arrangement and good plants 
are essential. Our Landscape Department 
has specialized in this work, is familiar with 
Wisconsin conditions, and has probably the 
largest assortment of choice nursery stock in 
the state to select from. 
White Elm Nursery Co. 
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin 
time as the fruit, continues to 
grow during the next season and 
normally develops a terminal 
fruit bud. This blossoms and 
bears again the second year, 
giving the apple a biennial fruit- 
ing habit. Although some spurs 
may fruit every other year for 
twelve to fifteen years, it is more 
common for them to fruit only 
every three, four, or five years. 
Again, in some cases they fruit 
in successive years. 
The pruning of old bearing 
apple trees is as much a prob- 
lem of keeping the old fruiting 
wood in a vigorous condition as 
it is one of the production of 
new fruiting wood. The effects 
of pruning are very local, i. e., 
the response to pruning as indi- 
cated by the increase in vigor of 
the new growth takes place close 
to where the cut was made. The 
removal of a large limb has a 
very limited effect on the spur 
growth on a nearby large limb, 
although the terminal growth 
along the main channels of the 
sap flow may be considerably in- 
creased by the pruning. The 
proper pruning then, as indicated 
by the fruiting habit of the apple, 
would be a thinning out and 
A LARGE STOCK OF 
Apple, Cherry and Plum Trees, Grape Vines, 
Blackberry and Raspberry Plants, 
and Strawberry Plants 
Both Everbearing and common varieties 
And a general line of ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS 
and ROSES. All stock clean and thrifty, the best that 
ean be grown in Wisconsin. 
GREAT NORTHERN NURSERY CO. 
Write for catalog and prices Baraboo, is. 
heading back of the smaller 
fruiting limbs and old fruit 
spurs. This style of pruning 
reduces excess fruiting wood, in- 
vigorates the old spurs, and per- 
mits an even distribution of 
light and air throughout the 
tree, whereas the removal of 
larger limbs makes holes in the 
top and only slightly benefits 
other dense portions of the tree 
top. 
Thus it can be seen how im- 
portant it is to know the fruit- 
ing habit of the trees when de- 
termining upon the kind and 
amount of pruning to give the 
older bearing trees. If the new 
The Kickapoo Valley 
Wisconsin’s 
Favored Fruit District 
Our Specialty: Planting and developing 
orchards for non-residents. 
A few choice tracts for sale. If inter- 
ested, write us. 
The Kickapoo Development Co. 
Gays Mills, Wis. 
wood bears fruit, as in plums, 
prune heavily to produce new 
wood. If the older wood is 
fruiting wood, as in the apple, 
prune lightly. 
