The Garden Under Glass
Forfatter: William F. Rowles
År: 1914
Forlag: Grant Richards Ltd. Publishers
Sted: London
Sider: 368
UDK: 631.911.9
With Numerous Practical Diagrams From Drawings By G. D. Rowles And Thirty-Two Illustrations From Photographs
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PEACHES AND NECTARINES 169
been extended indefinitely. Often we lads had to take down and retie whole branches because they did not reach his rigid standard. His ad vice was to give alternate ties up and down and to be quite sure that the last tie was an upward one so as to bear the weight if a fruit were left near the extremity of the shoot. Nor is this straight training
Diagram 33.—Peach Training: 1. Undesirable shape of tree. 2. Best type for peach-tree. 3. Branch of peach-tree before pruning and tying. 4. Same branch after pruning and tying.
at all difficult if it be started early in the tree’s career. To take over a tree of some ten years’ indiscriminate training and to endeavour to make it into a well-trained tree is a difficulty bordering on the impossible.
The main idea in the pruning and training of a peach-tree is to have the tree well clothed from bottom to top with fruiting wood. To allow the tree to extend unduly