The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-07-04

The Morrisina people In Garfield
county found that their orchard cf
Black Twig which had been set TWEEN
ty feet apart had grown to such husky
proportions that something had to he
done to save the trees. During the
past winter they put crew to work
oufiins Yt The greatest trouble
with our Colorado orchards as we
have observed II Is In growing too
much wood for the good of the fruit
and II often requires drastic methods
10 set things right when suffering
from neglect. The Fruit Grower ex-
plains that the trees in this bearing
orchard had become very high and
picking from the uppermost limbs
was difficult During the last three
years these high tops have been grad
ually reduced. until now they are
within easy reach from the tops OF
the eblcking ladders. The gradual
cutting back has not been as much
OF n shock TO the trees as would have
been the case had they been given
all OF the pruning at one time. II gen-
erY'y happens that after heavy cut
ting back a mass OF watersprouts de-
velops In all parts OF the tree. When
the trimming is done gradually there
Is "a less tendency for excessive
sprouting and more OF the growth
goes Into the regular branches AMI
shoots. In this case the trees have
so far made an unusually large num-
Der OF sprouts. as the cutting has been
done over a period OF years. There
is every indication now that the apple
crop for this season will be fully as
heavy as that of last year
We have all kinds Of trees In Colo
rado this spring that we're severely
wlusr killed and these may suIl be
trimmed out although we suppose the
mks Of them have already been treat
ed this way. Anybody in this county
can prune all summer and then not
get half through. With trees that have
suffered the distress Of a tough Nia-
ter IL IL quite necessary to improve
the process OF cultivation. irrigation
and tiilaEe and usually the trees viii
round to and overcome the Injury
within a year or 50. II the trunk
the tree ia severely injured II can be
cut back and permitted to send up
sprout which can take the place -
the original top. In the case Of a
few .sloatod trees in an orchard. the
sprout renewing the top may come
fram below the union Of the scion and
stiik and in this case II viii be nee
casary 70 bud or graft this stalk al
the point where Il is desired to have
the framework OF the trees develop.
This is a successful method II careful
Iy practioed and will produce results
In lees time than could be accomplish
ca, BY digging out three-year-oid
tree and rc-planting Good ullage
with a sufficient supply OF water. Will
make a normal growth during the
simmer.
Many OF the numerous known varle-
ties OF the strawberry have tried IN
different parts OF Colorado. Only a
few OF these. however, have been
found adapted to our conditions and
II is often the case that one or two
varieties are grown almost exclusive
iy In a certain section and strangest
OF all these are the very things that
will not grow anywhere else in Amer
lea and this is one OF the analogies
no oi,e has yet been able to explain
The ideal commercial berry for coio-
rado IS yet to be found and a few
growers are continually trying new
varieties in the hope OF finding one
that will be an Improvement over