CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-04-16
Local Happenings IN Town

fore each irrigation. is the best
method for watering as it prevents
water shoots or suckers forming at the
crown of the grated root, and does
not encourage surface roofing as the
furrow close to the trees always will.
In the day climate of Colorado it is
desirable to train the trees broad
enough to shade the ground. Less
water will be required and fruit of
better keeping qualities will be pro-
duced.
The paint, used to cover the ends
from which large branche have been
cut, must not have turpentine mixed
in it. Plain boiled linseed oil is suf-
ficient to prevent atmospheric action
until the bark has grown over the
wound.
kept moderately thin of branches. Let
them be left at regular distance, and
they will not fail to produce abundant
large. handsome fruit.
Young peach trees can be pruned
down to four shoots, Each shoot
should be shortened down to the fourth
eye. By this method each shoot will
produce. three or four new shoots dur
ing the summer and will be both
handsome and productive the follow
ing year,-trees that were so treated
last year must have the shoots short
,ned by cutting off about one third of
its length.
This practice prevents overbearins
and always produces large fruit.
The most important period of
young trees life is during its LIST End
and 3rd years. If it is CAREFUL trimmed
aud nothing but leading branches al
lowed to grow. it will be useful and
handso me tree, g wing little trouble in
future beyond the removal of old
wood past bearing.
Shortening tn, branches here re-
apple. only TO very young
trees; old trees must never have
bearing branches shortened unless
new wood is required on them.
As it is of considerable Importance
to secure large fruit it will be we'll to
go over the ground again and
emphasize the care that must be taken
to produce fruit buds. spurs or blossom
buds.
Fruit or flower is prevented wood.
therefor, if the branch that has pro-
duced many fine fruit spurs, which
are easily recognized by their short
thick appearance, and the breadth of
the bud. is shortened, it Immediately
causes the sap to- flow to the wood
shoots and start the fruit into a
shortened growth. 1t 10 the mission o
the tree TO produce fruiting wood up
to an extreme point, then comes crowd
nent of thinning the crops to a
limit, so that the tree
shall not injure its vitality with
millions of seeds for which
we have no use.
When pruning apples and pear trees
it is important to examine the trees
Tor surperfuous and interfering branch
%. these should be removed; those re-
must be pruned in way TO
preserve the. fruit spurs at such inter.
vals that the branches shall not be
overloaded.
Shortening or cutting the tips of
pruning branches must never be done,
nnless new wood is required upon
them for next years crop. Shortening
healthy branches will cut off the part
where fruit spurs first appear and
cause a vigrous grouth of strong wood
shoot instead of fruit spurs.
This should demonstrate that bear
ing branches must not be pruned at
the tips. If the center of the tree is
too open then the shortening of the
branches will produce new wood that
in too years will bear fine large fruit,
or. the st ongest shoots can be trained