TRAINING REACHES AND NECTARINES. 535 
be done afterwards with full grown treeS;, except cutting away that 
part of each shoot which produced fruit last season, and shortening it 
back to the origin of the shoot that is to bear fruit the coming year, 
as fig. 93, a a. 
93 
When pruning is required upon shoots that have not been cut in 
during summer, shorten each shoot one-half its length. Such ol 
those that were shortend in summer and pushed a small shoot or tAVo 
at the end, the end is cut off below w here the shoots have pushed, 
taking care to have a growing bud, or in the absence of one below,” 
to leave one of the small shoots. 
All small natural spurs are allowed to remain. 
It is of advantage to wash the trees during winter with soaj) suds, 
and to sprinkle them over with common sulphur. 
The borders in which the trees are planted should never be 
cropped with any thing that roots more than four inches deep, and 
on no account dug deeper. If healthy trees is the primary object, 
nothing should be growTi within several feet of them, and all encou¬ 
ragement should be given to keep the fibrous roots as near the surface 
as possible. When a tree becomes weak, manure may be dug in at 
the surface so deep as just to cover it from the drying air. It is my 
practice to give trees in full bearing a little w^ell rotted manure every 
November. The best mode of protecting the bloom from frost is 
netting; w hich can be procured at a very low^ rate of Mr. Hulme, 
Knutsford, Cheshire. [See adv. in the cover of this Magazine. ] 
When it is apprehended that the bloom has sustained injury from 
frost, w’asli the trees over w ith cold water early in the morning before 
sun-rise : if they are in full bloom, that is, the season of impregna¬ 
tion, the watering must then be dispensed with. 
The present article is solely for the management of peach and 
nectarine trees cultivated in the open air. A subsequent article 
shall be given on their management when forced. 
J. Harrison 
