Show E editorials D I 1 TO R I 1 ALs THE PRUNING OF TREES THE subject under consideration at the tho last meeting of the deseret horticultural society W wa 4 that of the pruning and training 9 of fruit trees this is a a question of very great importance to the ers of utah and second only at gt this thia juncture to the all absorbing I 1 I 1 one of disposing of the codling moth we give the the comments as a preen presented ted and a ap p proved by efio the sog lety lets and su suggest their careful perusal by all I 1 interested te the thie rude and indis indiscriminate criminate slaughter of fruit trees which lach has been beon and continue continues 3 to bo made and frequently too abo by parties claiming professional skill in the art of pruning an and a the painful lack of dh discretion displayed on this subject by many seems to call for some special effort to place before the public definite information relative to the true mode and design of pruning A vague conviction that the branches of fruit trees need a thinning outto out to keep an open head by removing the weak and conflicting bm branches c hes constitutes the tho sum of the information with which most persons commence the yearly attack attach upon the orchard the careful study of the habits and peculiarities liari ties of each species of tree the thought of abt each i individual tree hag has don dono 0 in tb the e pas past t or is expected to do in the future whether it is prematurely forming fruit buds or running to wood too luxuriantly uri antly the special care for a weak but important shoot that is receiving da too little nourishment because a gourmand above it is monopolizing all the sap and sunlight tha the calculation for future years that thai the foundation now laid shall shail be the basis of a sufficient number of branches fi filling in advantageously every part of th the tree while none shall crowd or inter interfere fere fero with its neighbors and a hundred other considerations have been generally overlooked if indeed they have ever entered into contemplation young trees as a rule are left to themselves until half grown when the oe tap is found to bo be a thicket of brush then 1 it is sagely concluded that thip the tree need needs pruning the onslaught commences axe and chesaw the saw aro are brought requisition arid and in one short hour a pretty useful tree is slain stripped of one ode third of its ita top A young tree once the victim of such mutilation rarely if ever over recovers from its effects efi acts in this sense a tree should never need pruning the difficulty should be avoided rather than remedied so that instead of felling great br branches auches the finger and thumb or at most tho the pruning knife will be sufficient to io direct the growth of the stalwart limbs in respect to shape fruit trees may be classi classified ried into the globa globular at or rou round n d headed beaded like ilke the apple lie the semi globular or goblet gobiet pyramidal olt anical like the pear or cherry it is important that diffor fanciful purposes ea we would divert nature from her wonted course to ervol ervel our special ends we do no violence to her principles to forma form a pyramidal tree for example the great difficulty is ls is 13 to make the lower branches grow properly and in due proportion to the tho upper ones the whole secret lies in the management of the buds every evers shoot shott and branch commences life as a bud and it is in infancy that their proper number and position should bo be determined no more bum should be left upon a shoot whose grov groN growth eth rth it is desired to increase can be sustained in perfect vigor or this will be about one third of number of buds produced so to that i of those hoots shoots designed to the largest dove deve of the last years yearns growth must cut off these should be shortened in before they start in the spring if still the upper branches grow too strong summer pinching will wilt furnish the necessary discipline for them this system of pruning must be commenced in the first or second year of the nursery plants the difference between the ear car early v pruning of a n round headed and a tree is that in the at lat terone central shoot should always be left a a leader and no rival allowed to ty grow perpendicularly 3 tho the lowest of the other branches growing laterally being the longest while in the former three or four shoots of equal vigor and importance are encouraged C ed the points i to be to especially observed 1 in pruning are summarized as follows study the requirements of the tree as to shape and relative vigor of the thi c branches and dd leavo leave upon the shoots no po more buds buda than can be maintained ith with alth the requisite vigor ad ad the position of or the remaining buds should be such that when the branches are all grown they with their future ramifications will not interfere with each other ath to increase the growth of a weak branch prune it close at the winter or spring pruning and pre seive selvo all the summer shoots without pinching ath to diminish an over lu luxuriant kurant branch leave a greater number adin berof of buds upon it by pruning less severely in the dormant sea pinch back during the summer the young shoots ath Enco encourage a horizontal growth of branches except with the leader this is assisted by having the last bud on the shoot an outside bud which will grow from the centre of the tree ath let lot the highest bud on the tiie leader be on opposite sides side each successive year to prevent it from growing to ono one side |