Outlines of the First Course of Yale Agricultural Lectures
Outlines of the First Course of Yale Agricultural Lectures
Hs Olcott
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In shortening your leader, don't always cut on the same side, for you would thus make the whole tree lean one way or the other. Pruning, rightly done, is a blessing ; wrongly, a curse. To show practically how pruning should be done, Mr. Barry performed the operation on several fruit-trees which he had brought for the purpose, and I have no doubt but that the large audience got thus a far better idea of the modus operan- TALE AGRICULTURAL LECTURES. 67 di than long arguments would have conveyed. ...I am also glad to learn that Mr. T. S. Gold intends to illustrate his lectures on sheep-breeding, by placing before us a well-shaped and a badly-shaped live sheep. Could, any thing be more admirable? Standard apple trees in orchards require very little pruning. If the head is formed at a proper distance from the ground, say four or five feet, and the main branches to form the frame work of the head are started in the right direction, as nearly as possible equally distant, inclining upward and outward, the subsequent pruning will consist in removing branches where they are likely to become crowded or to cross each other.
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