Roosevelt Standard | 1921-02-23 | Page 2 | What Proper Pruning Does

WHAT PROPER PRUNING DOES it gives mechanical strength to tree and facilitates war on diseases and pests 0 pruning facilitates orchard operations by removing limbs that will hinder cultivation spraying and picking it gives mechanical strength to the plant by preventing the formation of weak crotches or a willowy growth it corrects poor habits of growth it produces new wood which will be proportional in amount to tile the severity of the pruning done at this season it induces fruitfulness fruitt fruitful ulness ne it opens up the tree to sunlight and air which are all important factors in the coloring of fruit it facilitates the combating of p plant ant diseases alid insect pests it Is often necessary to prune affected trees to an all open top in order that dise diseased aed portions may be readily remo removes vei