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 171 the growing season the careful grower will have taken care to have tied in these shoots close to the fruiting wood, and in that case there will be little difficulty in training them straight. Whether inside or out, on wires or on walls, I certainly advise tying the small branches with raffia grass and the large ones with tar-cord.
Where there has been scale and red-spider, or where it
Diagram 35.— 1. Branch of peach-tree not disbudded. 2. Same branch dis-budded. 3. Same branch with the resulting growths temporarily tied in.
is feared there will be, a winter dressing should be applied to all the old wood first and then carefully, with a small brush, to the young growths, omitting only the buds, and exercising care not to rub these out. The dressing sold by Timothy & Sandwith is very effectual, and where it is used in the winter I find there is less difficulty in warding off red-spider in the summer.