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WHEN TO TRIM PEACH AND PEAR 
H OW soon after fruit is gathered is it 
safe and prudent to trim up, cut out 
limbs, and generally fit and shape 
peach and pear trees for the next year? 
This question refers to Western New 
York, or the strip along the Lakes. Just 
how soon after picking would you con¬ 
sider it safe to begin on the trees? 
I have had best results in trimming 
peach trees in Spring, March or April; 
with pears any time in the Winter 
months. We harvested about 7,000 
bushels of Bartlett pears this season and 
1.200 bushels last year, reaches were a 
failure, the first time in 16 years. 
. WILLARD HOPKINS & SONS. 
Niagara Co.. N. Y. 
The notion is rather widespread that 
it is desirable to prune peach trees soon 
after the crop has been harvested. The 
practice of pruning at this time comes 
from the old world, especially from Eng¬ 
land, where late Summer pruning is 
often recommended, and is probably ne¬ 
cessary in the cool, damp, English cli¬ 
mate so that air and sunshine can bet¬ 
tor reach all portions of the tree and as¬ 
sist in ripening the young wood. In 
such pruning the old wood is not cut hut j 
the work consists of pruning out and | 
training the young shoots leaving ma¬ 
ture wood until Winter. In America 
this late Summer pruning of the peach 
is little or not at all practiced by com¬ 
mercial peach growers, and even those 
who are growing peaches in private gar¬ 
dens, where it is possible to train and 
prune with more particular care, seldom 
trim their trees at this season of the 
year. Indeed, sometimes it is unsafe to 
do so, for if such a hurst of Summer 
weather as we are having in New York 
at this writing should follow, a very 
undesirable second growth might appear. 
The time to prune the peach in this cli¬ 
mate, then, is, with almost no exceptions, 
when the wood is dormant. It matters 
little after leaves drop and before they 
come the next Spring as to when the 
pruning is done, though there is a cur¬ 
rent prejudice that peach trees should 
not be cut until late Winter, because of 
injury from cold. Large peach growers, 
however, find it necessary to begin the 
work in early 'Winter, and do not report 
injury from freezing or from checking. 
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The Rural New-Yorker, 333 West 30th St., N. Y. 
The largest fruit growers around Hil¬ 
ton commence in December and trim on 
mild days all Winter. If I had but two 
trees to trim I should prefer to do it in 
March. I should not trim till the leaves 
had dropped; should not think it safe 
to do so. D1CLOS TENNEY. 
Monroe Co., N. Y. 
We have found it safe to trim peach 
trees at any time after the growth of 
the tree has stopped. This is indicated 
by the leaves turning yellow and com¬ 
mencing to drop. We usually begin as 
soon as the Fall harvest work is finished, 
about November 1. f. w. Cornwall. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. 
In regard to the question of trimming 
peach and pear trees, trim any time after 
the fruit is harvested. 
Orleans Co., N. Y. jay e. ALLIS. 
We always leave our trimming until 
about mid-Winter. The reason for this 
is that it is always possible, especially 
with peaches, in case of a hard freeze, 
that a certain growth of wood may 
freeze. If you trim early you of course 
trim it as you wish it to start next 
Spring. When the cold weather comes 
after that and freezes it hack another 
foot the tree has to be trimmed again, 
and you are taking off more than you 
want. My experience is that we are 
apt to have our extremely severe weath¬ 
er usually by the end of January, and 
a few years ago. in talking with Mr. 
King of Trumunsburg on this subject. 
I understood him to say that they be¬ 
gan trimming about the first of Decem¬ 
ber, hut they began early, as they had 
so much to do that they were obliged to 
begin then in order to get it finished be¬ 
fore Spring, with the experienced men 
they wish to do the work. If I remem¬ 
ber rightly he expressed a preference for 
the later trimming, but feels forced be¬ 
cause of the facts stated. While I have 
never practiced Summer trimming I can¬ 
not help hut feel that for peaches es¬ 
pecially it would be a good thing. This 
will of course tend to the formation of 
fruit buds lower down on the tree, 
whereas the majority of buds appear on 
the present season’s growth, and some¬ 
times severe trimming will remove more 
fruit buds than is desired. Except for the 
danger of freezing back I cannot sec any 
reason why a fruit tree may not be 
trimmed any time of the year after the 
first quick early growth is about over. 
I might add that it has seldom occurred 
in the past 30 years that in my location 
I have seen it sufficiently cold to freeze 
back the trees. w. l. mc kay. 
Ontario Co., N. Y. 
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