The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-04-25

duction of the branches before the
tree has finished negotiating directs
greater supply Of sap to those re-
manning and stores up in them the
supply for increased growth next sea-
SON If the production of spurs be
the object of pruning a branch 1t
should be pruned so as to have a
stump: because as the sap supplied
to the branch will be concentrated
upon those buds remaining at its eX-
tremity, these will be productive
shoots. though otherwise they would
have remained dormant, it being the
general habit of trees first to develop
and mature those parts that are far
thest from the roots. 1t is thus that
filberts are induced to put forth an
abundance OF young bearing wood for
the fruit is borne on the annual shoots
and similar treatment, to less Sc
we're extent. is practised upon wall
fruit.
The chief guide in pruning consists
in being well acquainted with the
mode of bearing Of the different sorts
OF trees, and forming IN early judg
ment OF the future events OF shoots
and branches, and many other cir
cumstances for which some principal
ticular instances which cannot be
judged OF best upon the spot. and de-
pend chiefly upon practise and OBJ
scryation. Peaches. nectarines and
apricots all produce their fruit prin-
cipally upon the young wood of a
year old: that is, the shoots produced
one year, bear the year following; so
that in all those trees a general sup
ply of the best shoots of each year
must be everywhere preserved at reg
MAR distances, from the very bottom
to the extremity of the tree on every
side, but in winter pruning, or gen
eral shortening, less or more, accord
ing to the strength of the different
shoots. is necessary in order to pro-
mote their throwing out. more effect
ually, a supply of young wood the ell =
suing summer, in proper place for
training for the succeeding years
| hearing.
Vines produce their fruit always
upon the young wood shoots OF the
same year, arising from the eyes of
the last years wood only, and must
be shortened to a few eyes in order
10 force out shoots from their lower
parts, only properly situated to lay il
Tor bearing the folio wing year Apple.
pear. plum and cherry trees bear prin-
tipally on spurs arising in the wood
of from two or three, to ten or twenty
years old, the same branches and spurs
continuing to bear great number Of
years; so that. having once procured
4 proper set of branches to form a
spreading head. no further supply of
wood is wanted than some occasional
shoots now and then to supply the
place of any worn out or dead branch
The above mentioned spurs or fruit
buds are short, robust, of from about
half an inch to one or two inches
long. arising naturally, first towards
the extreme parts of the branches of
/ two or three year old, and as the
branch increases in length. the num-
Der OF fruit buds increases accord
ingly.
In pruning always cut quite close
both in summer and winter pruning
In summer pruning if attended to
early, while the shoots are quite
Young and tender, they may be readily
rubbed off quite close with the thumb;
but when the shoots become older and
woody, as they will not readily break.
II must be done with a knife. cutting