Show bracing fruit trees wind and ice and heavy crops of fruit often break the limbs of fruit trees peach trees especially and these should be brace dWire is probably the best thing to use for this this purpose and it should be padded to prevent the wire from cutting into the limbs A good padding material is pieces of old automobile tires and the best time to do this work is during the pruning operation in pruning peach trees care should be taken to cut back the top branches which are often difficult to reach for unless this is done the lower branches will soon become weak and slender and finally die eventually this neglect will result in a leggy tree missouri F farmer armer |