DELICIOUS APPLE TREES
In Canada experience proves that Delicious apple trees require somewhat heavier pruning than the average variety to give the xacreased vigour necessary for the maximum fruitseting. This means moderate to heavy annual pruning, says F. S. Howlett, associate horticulturist of the Ohio Experiment Station. Bearing trees of the Delicious often fail to set fruit as heavily as desired. Fruit-setting studies at the Ohio Station indicate that this is due to the fact hat many flowers of the variety cannot set fruit, no matter hqw well pollinated. Incxeases brought about by heavy pruning are more likely to give the desired heavy commercial crop than any other vigour-producing practice. Apples of large size and colour are particularly desirable in the Delicious, as small and poorly-coloured fruit' of this variety are of inferior quality. This is another reason for thorough pruning. Dr. Howlett says, the pruning should not consist of the heading back and cutting out of large limbs, but a general thinning throughout the trees.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 25, 22 October 1937, Page 11
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