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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170 THE GARDEN UNDER GLASS
and to have large gaps in the centre and bottom of the tree is a decidedly bad policy. It will be generally noticed that the best fruits are found near the base of the fruiting branches, which would lead us to infer that the nearer the fruiting wood is to the base of the tree itself the better crop we shall get. Were there no difference in the crop
Diagram 34.—A well-furnished peach-tree.
it would certainly be a breach of economy to waste the wall or trellis space.
Where a peach-tree has been well managed during the growing season by disbudding the growths so as to leave only basal shoots and a leader to each brauch, it will be an easy matter to cut out the fruiting wood at the point from which the new growths spring and then to thin the branches. In the thinning the lower shoots should have the preference in retention, unless they are decidedly weak, ill-ripened or obviously inferior to the others. During