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Title: Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Biggle, Jacob
Subjects: Fruit-culture
Publisher: Philadelphia : Wilmer Atkinson Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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A thick growth of new branchesresults in weak bearing shoots and spurs. When cutting backlimbs on bearing trees the cut should be made just above a stronglateral, wherever possible. The tendency of the sap will then beto flow into the lateral and thus prevent the formation of thenumerous branches which nearly always result when a so-calledstub-cut is made. The orchardist should become well acquainted with the habitof growth of different varieties. A few kinds grow slowly andwill not bear heavy pruning. Others are erect growers; andsome are spreading. One can not expect entireb^ to overcomesuch tendencies, but they may be corrected to a marked degree.The upright varieties may be spread somewhat by pruning tooutside laterals or buds, and the spreading kinds may be con-tracted by cutting to laterals or buds which have an inwarddirection. And by cutting back the vigorous growers eachseason, the limbs are made stocky, thus in great measure doingaway with drooping branches. PLATE V BALDWIN
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