Pruning can help the grower to regulate to a certain extent the quantity and quality of the fruit to be borne. If there are too many branches and too many fruit spurs there may be quantity without size or quality.
Pruning should facilitate the picking of the fruit and the complete spraying of the trees. It is difficult to control pests and diseases on branches that are extremely tall, unless one has special spraying equipment. Any good pruner must feel his power. He must know and realize what he is doing, for he can make the tree grow and develop largely as he wills, and his skill is going to determine the future of the bush or tree to a large extent.
There is little doubt that the most important difference between the fruit grower who uses chemical fertilizers and the organic fruit grower is that the former thinks that he knows best what his trees need and proceeds to give it to them in comparatively large doses. He ought to know by this time, however, that much of the dosage thus given is never taken up by the trees at all.
The organic fruit grower, on the other hand, lets his fruit trees and hushes make their own feeding arrangements, seeking only to provide the best possible conditions for this purpose. It may he true that plants will convert inorganic into organic materials but they do not necessarily require our intervention. Surely it is logical to suppose that resorting to short cuts must have some effect on their metabolism.
A rambling, straggling type of tree can be pruned into a more shapely specimen. Pruning can give to the owner of the tree the number of branches he needs.
It cannot be denied that most of the chemical fertilizers used today are, in fact, produced synthetically in factories. They are applied in the form of soluble concentrated salts and thus they produce in the soil conditions which have ho counterpart in nature. - 15266
Pruning should facilitate the picking of the fruit and the complete spraying of the trees. It is difficult to control pests and diseases on branches that are extremely tall, unless one has special spraying equipment. Any good pruner must feel his power. He must know and realize what he is doing, for he can make the tree grow and develop largely as he wills, and his skill is going to determine the future of the bush or tree to a large extent.
There is little doubt that the most important difference between the fruit grower who uses chemical fertilizers and the organic fruit grower is that the former thinks that he knows best what his trees need and proceeds to give it to them in comparatively large doses. He ought to know by this time, however, that much of the dosage thus given is never taken up by the trees at all.
The organic fruit grower, on the other hand, lets his fruit trees and hushes make their own feeding arrangements, seeking only to provide the best possible conditions for this purpose. It may he true that plants will convert inorganic into organic materials but they do not necessarily require our intervention. Surely it is logical to suppose that resorting to short cuts must have some effect on their metabolism.
A rambling, straggling type of tree can be pruned into a more shapely specimen. Pruning can give to the owner of the tree the number of branches he needs.
It cannot be denied that most of the chemical fertilizers used today are, in fact, produced synthetically in factories. They are applied in the form of soluble concentrated salts and thus they produce in the soil conditions which have ho counterpart in nature. - 15266
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Garden fruit trees such as dwarf pear can be trained by the espalier method to form attractive and productive patterns flat against a sunny fence or wall.
