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    How to Prune the Apple Orchard - Selected Articles
    How to Prune the Apple Orchard - Selected Articles
    How to Prune the Apple Orchard - Selected Articles
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    How to Prune the Apple Orchard - Selected Articles

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    This antiquarian book contains a simple yet comprehensive guide to pruning trees in an apple orchard, with information on common problems and pitfalls, tools and their correct use, pruning tress of different shapes and sizes, and much more. Complete with concise, useful information and a plethora of handy tips, this guide is ideal for orchard owners, and will make for a great addition to collections of allied literature. The chapters of this book include: 'The Final Pruning', 'Branches Must Not Be Crowded', 'Pruning', 'High Heads Versus Low Heads', 'A High-Headed Tree', 'The Framework', 'The Second Stage', 'The Fruiting Stage', 'Old Years', 'The Time to Prune', 'Painting Wounds', and more. We are republishing this vintage text now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned introduction on growing fruit.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateApr 26, 2013
    ISBN9781473391161
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      How to Prune the Apple Orchard - Selected Articles - Read Books Ltd.

      How to Prune the

      Apple Orchard

      -Selected Articles-

      by

      Various

      Contents

      Pruning Apple Trees

      The Final Pruning

      Branches Must Not be Crowded

      PRUNING

      HIGH HEADS VERSUS LOW HEADS

      THE FRAMEWORK

      THE SECOND STAGE

      THE FRUITING STAGE

      ODD YEARS

      THE TIME TO PRUNE

      PAINTING WOUNDS

      PRUNING TOOLS

      HOW TO MAKE THE CUT

      PRUNING

      Pruning Apple Trees

      LET us first describe the orthodox pruning of an apple tree. There are five chief types of tree: the standard, which has a head of branches on a stem 5 feet to 6 feet high (the half standard is a similar tree on a shorter stem); the bush, which has a number of branches that arise near the base of the tree; the pyramid, which has a central stem from which branches grow throughout its full length; the cordon, which has one, two, or three stems, but no secondary branches, except the short side shoots on which the fruits are borne; and trained trees (dealt with in a separate chapter).

      The orthodox method of pruning is much the same for all these forms of apple trees. It consists first of all in cutting out weakly and ill-placed shoots that tend to overcrowd and interfere with the development of the main branches; that process is known as thinning out, and is a necessary preliminary to the actual pruning or cutting back.

      Then we come to deal with the main branches. Their pruning consists in shortening the part that grew during the previous summer by one-third, if they are only moderately strong, or by one-half, or even two-thirds, if they are rather weakly. Finally, there are the side shoots to be pruned.

      Side shoots are those that develop on the main limbs of the tree and on which the fruits are borne. These are pruned twice a year—in late July or early August, and again in winter—during December or January. The summer pruning consists in shortening the current summer’s growth only of the side shoots to within about six buds of the base; the older wood below that point must not be cut. In this connection it should be mentioned that the small leaves at the extreme base of the shoot are not to be counted. In the course of a few weeks further shoots will develop from the top of the shortened side shoots;

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