YOUNG FRUIT TREES
TIME FOR. PRUNING. When a tree is young is the time when pruning should bo done, so as to form a good base for a well-shaped tree in after years. The leading shoot should be cut back to 12 inches from the base of this season's growth. The side branches should be shortened back to eight or nine inches, and any thin sub-laterial shoots should be cu t back to two or three buds so as to form spurs. Several shoots will arise from the pruning during the coming summer. but only the best situated should be retained, the rest being pinched out. By means of both winter and summer pruning a foundation can be made that in after years will need little pruning.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1940, Page 9
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127YOUNG FRUIT TREES Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1940, Page 9
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