The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-07-04
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PRUNING YOUNG FRIyIT

| sdiu poItlon of tdelr tops I00ped away
as soon after planting in a permanent
place as 1t is convenient to do the lob.
Even under the most careful methods
now praeticed in our large nurseries, a
considerable part of the roots are likely
to be broken off and left in the ground.
This loss OF fbrous roots will amount to
one-half at the best and when ignorance
prevails. and brute force is used, the loss
will be very much larger. Young trees
deprived of their roots in this way, re-
qnlre careful treatment in planting,
pruning, and mulching the first and
second years. Many Of the larger tree
growers make use of a digging machine
a labor-saving implement but it does
not always save any more roots than the
old methods of digging with spades.
| The writer received lot of cherry and
peach trees this spring, strong vigorous
looking trees, but the roots were sorry
sight to behold. Bare stumps, eight or
ten inches long, with hardly q fbrous
root left. These were taken out by ma
chine work Such troes, when planted
and left unpruned with hardly any root
to support large spread of top, must
necessarily suffer, even under the most
favorable circumstances.
Whatever fimsy objections may be
made against pruning trees three. four.
or FIVE years planted, there can be no
sound objections offered against using
the knife freely in cutting back the tops
when the trees are planted so that the
top may be made to correspond with the
loss of roots by careless digging.
With apples, pears, and cherries the
pruning should be done with view to
encourage any upward and outward
growth, thinning out where the young
branches are too thick. 1t is most de-
sirable 10 have the tops of tho large
fruit bearing trees sufficiently open to
admit the free access of sun and air to all
parts.
In giving the first pruning it is safe
to say that from one-half to two-thirds Of
the young growth may be cut off with
decided advantage. The direction of
the future branch will depend upon the
position the leaf had at the time of
pruning. 1t requires only a little prac-
tice and exercise of common sence to
train four or five hundred trees into WELL
formed and symmetrical heads, open
enough to admit air and sunlight freely
Trees trained in this way will prove a
great pleasure to the owner as objects of
symmetry and beauty; while at the
same time they will produce more perfect
fruit to the same extent of surface than
trees allowed to grow up without such
care, cor in other words, it pays well to
give careful attention to young fruit-trees.
To be sussessful in peach growing, the
first pruning should be more severe than
that with apples and pears. When the
young peach trees are set in place then
with sharp knife, every branch should
be cut off close up to the body Of each
tree The main or center shoot is also
cut off four or FIVE feet above the surface.
If it is decided to train the trees with
low spreading heads than the main shoot
| may be cut off from two or three feet
above the surface. To one not familiar
with peach culture, such a young tree
| Just pruned. makes poor show, and
ordinations are frequent from those
not yet initiated, that such cutting will
certainly destroy the trees, This how
ever, will not prove true. AS the season
advances, new and regular system of
growth will be pushed out, giving tho
| material properly distributed on which
to form a well shaped tree. Beginners
need have no fear about using the prun-
ing knife freely on young peach trees at
the time of transplanting.-N 7. 7Stb.
atne.
THE Potato BUG-How TO KILL HIM.
Every year-for the Colorado potato
bug has become a perennial pest in this
chmate-our exchange papers are recon-
mending the celebrated ''Paris green"
paint. in it's dry form as q sovereign re-
medy for the ravages of this annoying
and disgusting insect. Now the basis of
"Paris green" is arsenic and. if possible
more poisonous and destructive than the
| bug itself; and we advise our readers
| to use it no more forever, for better
remedy, and one entirely harmless, is
| found in the refuse lime which has been
used in the manufacture of burning gas.
| This is not new idea or remedy. 1t
has been used with the greatest success
! by people whom we know, and is pro-
! nounced by them safe and efficient in its
operations as a bug-destroyer, while its
effects upon the land is to fertilize and
improve it. This may be depended
upon and as the gas companies will bo
| glad to give away all that they mako
and is abundant, the only expense attach
ed to its use is the cost of hauling it to
| potato fields. it can be pulverlzed and
scattered over the vines, and the bug
will soon be exterminated.
We heartily commend this remedy
to all who anticipate contest this sum-
mer with the little pest designated.
ICING.
| Beat the white oe four eggs to a stiff
/ frotb then add to them half pound
of ground or powdered white sugar: beat
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