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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
March  17,  1923 
The  Yield  of  the  Crop 
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Some  years  ago  I  and  my  wife  and 
daughter  saw  Florida  from  a  boat,  but 
like  Mr.  Buchanan,  I  purchased  a  boat 
down  there.  .  We  saw  the  State  from  end 
to  end,  on  the  east  coast,  using  some  four 
months  in  doing  so.  We  lived  most  of 
the  time  in  a  10x12  tent,  so  we  became 
acquainted  with  “the  snakes  and  bugs.” 
At  one  place  where  we  stayed  several 
days  a  good-sized  blacksnake  took  a  lik¬ 
ing  to  our  flour  sieve  in  the  provision 
box.  We  never  disturbed  it ;  not  that 
any  of  us  was  afraid  of  it,  hut  because 
we  welcomed  it  as  a  neighbor.  Where 
there  is  a  blacksnake  there  will  be  no 
rattlesnakes.  Traveling  as  we  did  we 
wore  plain  clothes,  and  we  got  nearer  to 
the  natives  than  any  ordinary  tourist 
could.  The  tourist  amuses  the  real 
native,  and  is  looked  upon  as  manna 
sent  from  heaven.  We  sailed  along  as 
the  breeze  favored,  but  to  do  it  right  you 
would  want  a  motor  boat  with  a  cabin 
that  would  “sleep”  four.  One  of  the 
four  would  have  to  know  boats  and  one 
at  least  should  be  a  fair  plain  cook. 
What  a  lot  of  fun  they  could  have ! 
JOHN  C.  LEONARD. 
Principles  of  Pruning  Trees 
The  last  issue  of  The  Rural  New- 
Yorker  has  just  been  received  and  care¬ 
fully  gone  over  for  horticultural  items. 
While  I  can  agree  heartily  with  prac¬ 
tically  all  that  is  said  on  the  subject  of 
pruning  in  the  leading  article  on  page  187, 
I  believe  that  the  suggested  pruning  of 
the  six-year-old  trees  shown  on  page  188 
is  not  in  harmony  with  the  best  ideas  on 
the  subject  at  the  present  time.  Present- 
day  recommendations  for  the  apple  tree 
approaching  the  fruiting  age  are  “prune 
as  little  as  possible.  Thin  out  a  little, 
if  absolutely  necessary,  but  never  cut 
back.”  The  only  possible  exception  would 
be  a  wayward  branch  so  far  outstripping 
its  fellows  as  to  threaten  to  unbalance 
the  tree. 
The  work  of  Krause  in  showing  the 
necessity  for  a  proper  balance  between 
nitrogen  and  carbohydrates  shows  the 
reason  for  not  pruning,  since  the  removal 
of  wood  postpones  the  time  when  these 
will  arrive  at  a  balance  in  the  tree  and 
fruitfulness  begin.  This  is  very  strik¬ 
ingly  shown  in  the  behavior  of  the  Mann 
orchard  at  Geneva,  O.,  a  description  of 
which  appeared  in  The  It.  N.-Y.  a  couple 
of  years  ago.  This  orchard  received  no 
pruning  except  at  planting  time.  Dur¬ 
ing  its  sixth  Summer  it  was  visited  by 
the  Ohio  State  Horticultural  Society  and 
these  5 14 -year-old  trees  were  found  to  be 
loaded  with  fruit,  even  such  tardy  bearers 
as  the  Baldwin  being  fairly  well  filled. 
The  particular  argument  against  head¬ 
ing  back  lies  in  the  fact  that  normally 
the  first  fruit  on  the  young  tree  is  borne 
on  lateral  spurs  on  two  or  three-year-old 
wood,  and  the  process  of  heading  inter¬ 
feres  with  the  development  of  these  spurs. 
The  terminal  growth  on  the  limb  of  a 
four  to  six-year-old  tree  is  a  long,  un- 
branehed  root.  If  undisturbed,  its  devel¬ 
opment  the  second  year  is  as  follows : 
The  terminal  bud  continues  the  growth, 
the  buds  on  the  upper  one-third,  roughly 
speaking,  of  the  shoot  produce  branches, 
the  buds  on  the  middle  one-third  produce 
spurs,  and  the  buds'  on  the  lower  one- 
third  of  the  shoot  usually  remain  dor¬ 
mant.  What  happens  when  we  follow 
the  suggested  method  of  removing  the  up¬ 
per  one-third  of  the  shoot  at  pruning 
time?  Simply  this:  The  buds  on  the 
middle  third  of  the  shoot,  stimulated  by 
the  pruning,  develop  branches  instead  of 
spurs,  the  buds  on  the  lower  one-third 
remain  dormant  and  our  pruning  has  elim¬ 
inated  the  spur-bearing  section  of  the 
shoot,  with  the  effect  before  stated  of  de¬ 
ferring  production.  paul  thayer. 
Pennsylvania. 
Top-working  Kieffer  Pears 
Will  Clapp  Favorite  or  Bartlett  pear 
do  well  or  live  on  Kieffer  when  grafted? 
Coxsackie.  N.  Y.  x.  y.  z. 
There  have  been  frequent  reports  of  suc¬ 
cess  in  top-working  Kieffers  to  other  va¬ 
rieties.  but  usually  more  is  heard  regard¬ 
ing  them  two  or  three  years  after  grafting 
than  after  five  or  six  years  have  elapsed. 
In  other  words,  though  the  grafts  will 
often  start  off  well,  they  never  live  long. 
D.  K.  Bell  of  New  York,  who  knows  as 
much  about  pears  as  any  other  man  in 
the  country,  has  repeatedly  made  the 
statement  that  so  far  as  he  knows  no 
vai'iety  can  be  top-worked  profitably  on 
the  Kieffer.  H.  b.  t. 
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