THE TRAINING OF FRUIT TREES.
The following, which we extract from a foreign journal, though not new, may prove a useful hint to beginners engaged in training fruit trees :—ln 1870, M. Chevalier, of Montreuil, planted a young tree of the Grosse Mignonne Hative Peach, which he destined for training in the U form. For this purpose two nearly opposite buds were allowed to remain near the base of the stem, in order to form the two main branches of the U. One of these buds, during the first year, produced a shoot more than three feet long, while the opposite bud made only a very short and feeble shoot. With the view of equalising the growth of the two shoots, M. Chevalier cut off the,half of each of the leaves on the stronger shoot, leaving those on the weaker one untouched. The result was that the vigor of the stronger shoot was so checked, while the other continued to push, that the growth and size of both are now perfectly equalized and symmetrical." It is necessary to add that this cutting of the leaves must be performed carefully and by degrees, otherwise the shoot so operated upon may be very seriously injured.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1527, 21 November 1873, Page 23
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203THE TRAINING OF FRUIT TREES. Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1527, 21 November 1873, Page 23
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