| Show FRUIT low HEADS one great error committed by nurserymen nurseryman nursery men and fruit growers is allowing their trees to head too high the culture of fruit is beginning to attract increased attention and some odthe most intelligent cultivators bave have discovered this error it is an error that should bo be corrected in ih the tile nursery but nursery men will be slow to adopt the improvement because trees with low heads will not pack for far market so snugly as althey they will in it the form of long stem switches but if the tha evil is not remedied in the nursery the should do tile the best lest he can to correct it it with the peach this call can be e done because tiie the trees are usually planted when but one year from the bud when these are set in the orchard tile the mainster main maln stem should arild be cat cut back within 12 or 15 inches of the ground so as to cause the head to branch within that distance the apple tree should be cut back when one year from the graft to within 18 or 21 inches ancher of the ground so that none of the branches should put out more thad than two feet high when this is not done in the nursery it is better to procure 16 mall email trees and put them into good ground and cultivate them well and cut them back to the height we here propose A good head if treated properly can generally be forced out at the proper point we have heard beard of successful growers of the peach who cut their trees off affat at tile the ground and even sometimes repeat I 1 the th e cutting a second spring in order to cause the tree to throw up a number of branches at the ground trees trained with low heads beads are less las likely to be thrown into lato position by y tha tb pre prel 1 availing winds as we now frequently see them the fruit ban can be more readily gatli gathered ered and with less liability to injury from falling and the evil effects of the frost and sun upon the tiie stem which prove so disastrous to many trees and which alone cause the ablack of the western borer would be entirely avoided with low heads the tile shade prevents in a great degree the weeds and grass from growing under the trees it is true while the orchard is young it cannot be so thoroughly cultivated with a team as trees with higher heads but what cannot be done with the team should be done by hand or if each tree was surrounded for a distance of four feet with old tan bark straw or hay to the depth of four inches it would be of greater benefit than such cultivation as trees generally receive eive elve the method now practiced by nurserymen nurseryman nursery men in cutting back the heads of dwarf pear trees will produce just jast such form as is desired for the apple and peach tree if the cherry tree could be forced to branch in this way from the ground distributing the sap into a number of main maln channels we believe the wood would madura mature better and the tree would be in a better condition to withstand the effects of our climate |
