HEALTH OF TREE
DEPENDS ON PRUNING. The future health of a fruit tree depends upon maintaining a proper balance between its root and branch system. Lifting from the nursery causes a certain loss of roots and is bound to upset the balance of a newly planted tree.
To correct this, two-thirds of the young wood that has been made during the current season in the nursery should be removed by pruning, making the cut to a bud pointing in an outward. direction. The extension branch will then grow from the top bud that has been left. It is quite possible that the two top buds will grow out in Y formation.
If left unpruned, these growths would compete with one another and as only one is required as a leader, the weaker one should be cut right out at the point where it grows from the branch.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 July 1941, Page 8
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147HEALTH OF TREE Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 July 1941, Page 8
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