The Pruning-Book. a Monograph of the Pruning And Training of Plants As Applied to American Conditions
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117 tells the story. In this case, the very young fruit was removed, and two blossom -buds have developed the same season. In this spur the bearing year is changed. We also found that the bearing year was once changed in the pear spur shown in Fig. 19. I must hasten to say, however, that this change in the bearing year does not always follow the removal of the flowers or young fruits, for very much depends on the habit of the tree-, as well as L Digitized by Google 178 THE PRINCIPLES OP PRUNING... on its general thrift and vigor; but it is safe to say that removing the flowers or very young fruits from a spur or branch tends to cause that part to bear the following year. The fact that work is expended in the bearing of fruit may be understood if one examines the swellings on the spurs or fruit-bearing twigs of pears. In Pig. 118, these swellings .are seen at a a. The scars at the ends show that fruit was borne there. In the transfer of food to this point and the arrest of longi- tudinal growth, a building up of mechanical tissue has taken place ; and it is probable that the long Pear fruit- ^Towth of the lateral branches buds resulting (which, in this casc, bear only leaf- from the re- feuds) has been made possible by the Natural sizT ^xccss of nutriment.
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