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    Pruning Pear Trees - Three Articles
    Pruning Pear Trees - Three Articles
    Pruning Pear Trees - Three Articles
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    Pruning Pear Trees - Three Articles

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    This vintage book is a complete guide to pruning pear trees, with information on tools and equipment, technique, common problems, benefits, and other related aspects. Written in plain language and full of helpful illustrations, this handbook will be of utility to budding gardeners with an interest in pear production, and would make for an ideal addition to collections of related allied literature. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on growing fruit.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9781473354890
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      Pruning Pear Trees - Three Articles - Read Books Ltd.

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      PRUNING.

      IT is admitted by all intelligent fruit growers, that on a proper and judicious system of pruning depends the success of a young orchard. But there are others, who suppose that, when the tree is in place, and it has started to grow, care is no longer required; this is not so—if vigorous, fruitful and well shaped trees are wanted. The following truthful statement on the necessity of a system of pruning is from that excellent work, Barry’s Fruit Garden. "The idea that our bright American sun and clear atmosphere render pruning an almost unnecessary operation, has not only been inculcated by horticultural writers, but has been acted upon in practice to such an extent, that more than three-fourths of all the bearing fruit trees in the country at this moment, are either lean, misshaped skeletons, or the heads are perfect masses of wood, unable to yield more than one bushel in ten of fruit well matured, colored and ripened. This is actually the case, in what may be called well-managed orchards. Look at the difference between the fruit produced on young and old trees. The former are open, the fruits are exposed to the sun, therefore they are not only large and perfect, but their skins are smooth, as though they were polished. This ought to teach us something about pruning; but this is only one point. We prune one portion of a tree to reduce its size, and to favor the growth of another and weaker part. We prune a stem, a branch or a shoot to produce ramification of their parts, and thus change and modify the whole form of the tree. We prune to induce fruitfulness and to diminish it. We prune in growing as well as in dormant seasons; and finally we prune both roots and branches. Thus we see that pruning is applied to all parts of the trees at all seasons, and to produce the most opposite

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