Identifier: horticulturistjo2368alba (find matches)
Title: The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste
Year: 1846 (1840s)
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Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : Luthur Tucker
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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n.but not as early; a light blue green untilfully ripe, when outwardly it is a pale yel-low or yellow green, ribbed and with broadraised nettings; flesh, thick, green, veryrich, sweet, and delicious. Were we to select two sorts we shouldtake Skillmans and Citron, and for a third,Alvords Hybrid. p Pruning Dwarf Pears. 367 PRUNING DWARF PEARS. Many suppose, when reading of the neces-•sity of pruning dwarf pear-trees, to makethem bushy and induce early bearing,that the lower limbs should all be takenoft and only an occasional end branch beshortened. We therefore, in order to dis-abuse any such impression, give an illustra-tion here of a Rosteizer 2>ear-tree, shorten- ed in annually from its first years growth,and now five years old. We show it justas it is, although it is apparent that littleextra care in cutting would have avoidedthe knobs of dead wood now seen on someof the earlier cuts. Recently we passedthrough an amateurs grounds, who, inshowing us his dwarf pears, drew our at-
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Fro. 113.—Rosteizer Pear-Tree. tention, with great apparent satisfaction to copy from him, because in his summer himself, to his summer pinching, and the pinching he had waited until the branches consequent production of fruit buds at had grown one to two feet, and the result the terminus; but although we did not say is, that next year his trees will throw out a so, because of his sensitiveness, we con- world of cross shoots, with little elonga- fes^s we felt annoyed that any one should tion at ends, and necessitate a complete 368 The Horticulturist. cutting back the next year, thus losing atleast one if not two years of time. If anyof our readers have committed a likeblunder, our advice to them is to cut backthis coming fall or winter pruning, without regard to terminal fruit buds, but withregard to the ultimate form and durabilityof the tree, for it is all-important that theleading supporting limb buds should bekept near the base or below fruit bud. CHENANGO STRAWBERRY-APPLE. Syno

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