POINTS ON PRUNING.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3133, 4 March 1879, Page 3

POINTS ON PRUNING.

M. Dv Boreuil, in a work on pruning and training fruit trees, published in France, lays down the following rules, based on the fundamental principles un> derlying the whole method:—The permanency of form in trained trees is dependent on the equal diffusion-of sap. Prune the long branches short, but allow the weak ones to grow long. Depress the strong parts of the tree, and elevate the weak brunches. Suppress th,e useless buds on the strong parts as soon aB possible, and as late as possible on the weak parts, flail up tho strong parts very early and very close to the wall.. Delay nailing the weak parts as long as possible. Suppress a number of the leaves on the weak side. Allow as large a quantity of fruit as possible on the strong side and suppress all upon the weak side. Bring forward the weak i side from the wall and keep the ' strong side close to it. The sap develops the branches much more vigorously upon a branch cut short than upon one left long. The more the sap is retarded in its circulation, the less wood and the more fruit-buds will develop. To retard excessive growth either during autumn root-prune, or re-—-«frove the' trees, or in the spring expose the roots to the sun and keep manure and water from them ; retarding the excessive .vigor of the tree leads to its fruit-bearing. "Keep'the fruits, as far as possible, vertical and their stems lowermost. Let the leaves lap over the,fruit till nearly ripe, irhen light as well as heat must be allowed to bear on, the other side-. ; ;