July 1, 1908 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
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SMOKERS? TREAT. 
ENTERPRISE TOBACCO 
Aromatic Gold‘Bar, 5s. 6d. lb. Dark, 5s. Ib. 
Nothing better to, be had, 
Enterprise Twist Tobacco, 3s. 3d. lb- 
‘Enterprise Pocket Pieces, 3s. 3d. 1b. 
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of producing and ripening without over- 
taxing its strength or running risk of 
and light into the tree to ripen the wood - 
~ from the sun; keeping the tree well under 
damage from overburdened boughs, The 
reasons for pruning are numerous, but 
the chief objects to be obtained are 
the promotion of healthy growth; in- 
creasing the quantity or quality of the 
fruit produced; admittlng sufficient air 
without exposing it to risk of burning 
control so as to facilitate the work of the 
orchard and the harvesting of the fruit ; 
and increasing the duration of time over 
which regular and evenly distributed - 
crops should be borne. Too frequently — 
trees are allowed t» bear inordinately 
‘heavy crops, which they are unable to 
properly mature, with the result that 
i aes profitable prices. 
not confined to the one season, for the ~ 
much of it is-lost by falling off, and the 
balance is so small as to fail to procure 
r ' The loss, however, is 
following year the effects of the strain 
upon the tree are noticeable by the 
smallness of the fruit produced. It is far 
better for a man to content himself with 
average crops of good fruit, which are 
readiiy disposed of at remunerative prices, 
and to maintain the vigor of his trees. 
Losses caused by heavy crops of small . 
fruit are almost entirely due to the 
‘pruner failing to regulate the quantity of 
Palace Hotel, Perth, W.A., 
August 26th, 1905 
Dear Mr Frisby —Please accept my best 
thanks for the very excellent manner in 
which you have turned out my clothes. 
The suits are the best I have had in any 
of the Australiau colonies. You are to be — 
congratulated on being able to turn out. 
such first-class work. I am more thati- 
pleased with it. Wishing you every 
success, IT am, yours truly, — 
: Junius Kniacur, 
bearing wood to the strength of his trees. 
Very often trees tha; have not been pro- 
pertly attendel to present snea a deasity 
of intertwining brvaches thit it is often 
difficult to decide where to commence to 
prune. Obviously they are overcrowded, __ 
and in order to prevent the risk of cutting 
ont a quantity of valuible wood the 
pruner snould first content himself with 
thinning out the lateral growth. and any 
useless wood. without interfering with 
the main limbs of the trees. .By doing 
this he is better able to judge the shape — 
his trees-should assume and space the 
boughs accordingly. To take out large, — 
main, or secendary limbs at the com- 
mencement often means the sacrifice-of ~ 
valuable limbs, which might have been — 
better utillsed to space the tree than 
those which remain. No branches should 
be taken out unless it is definitely decided 
that they interfere with the equal distri-_ 
bution of the remaining ones, The object 
