Identifier: gardenersassista04thom (find matches)
Title: The gardener's assistant; a practical and scientific exposition of the art of gardening in all its branches
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Thompson, Robert, 1798-1869 Watson, William, 1858-1925
Subjects: Gardening Horticulture
Publisher: London : The Gresham Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ap which wasin movement towards the other nine, In orderthat the disbudded shoot may continue healthy,the disbudding should be performed by degrees.The forerights, in the first place, and then theothers, should be gradually thinned away, tillno more shoots and foliage are left than thereis room to fully expose to light. The leading young shoot of branches intendedto be prolonged should be trained at full length.The terminal young shoot of bearing branchesought to be allowed to grow till its lower leavesare nearly full-sized, and then it should beshortened to 3 inches. Other young shootshaving fruit at their bases should also be cutor pinched back to three or four leaves; andwhen the fruit is thinned, many of such shoots,from the bases of which the fruit is removed,may be dispensed with. It will sometimeshappen that on shoots laid in for bearing therewill be no fruit. When this is found to be thecase, they may be cut off at the base, and thesuccession shoot trained in their place. When
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any of the succession shoots appear likely tobecome too vigorous, their tops must be pinchedoff, but it would be desirable that this shouldbe done not lower than 1 foot or 15 inches fromthe base. After the fruit is gathered, all wood that isnot required for the following years fruiting, orfor extending the size of the tree, must be re-moved, so as to give the shoots left the fullbenefit of the food supplied by the roots, anaexposure to air and sunshine. Thinning the Fruit.—To what ex-tent thinning should be carried de-pends on the vigour of the tree andnatural size of the fruit. If the treeis weakly, its fruit should be leftthin as compared with that on atree that is vigorous; and on weakbranches fewer fruit should be leftthan on the more vigorous branchesof the same tree. If the tree is ina healthy state, and the flow of sapdistributed as equally as possiblethroughout the respective branches,the fruit will set in much greaterabundance than could be properlymatured, and few will dro

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