The pruning is begun when the trees are 2 or three years old by removing the lowest branches.
Regular annual pruning is required generally to prevent the limbs from interfering with orchard practices.
Cultivation and other orchard practices may be greatly simplified in commercial plantings by pruning and training the tree heads to heights of six or eight feet.
But trees making a very strong growth may stand more pruning and those making a poor growth may need none.
Pruning of weakened twigs is recommended for wood injured by the cicada.
There was so much loss as to involve too much work if pruning and after care of sprouts were undertaken.
Pruning the walnut trees in the spring when sap is flowing freely would not be desirable, I should think.
And possibly some of the hickories, but for the most part I doubt if pruning is desirable, save for broken branches.
Morris what time of the year he would advise pruning the Persian walnuts here in Stamford.
There is but very little pruning of the young hazel-plants necessary until they are planted in the orchard.
I will therefore not dwell on the subject of pruning just now, but will leave the propagating and growing of the hazel or filbert-plants in the nursery and try to make a few remarks about the hazel or filbert orchard.
This actually brings us to the operation of pruning our hazel plants, which is in every way quite an important part of the growing of hazel nuts.
It imports the retrenchment of all superfluities, and a pruning of the expression.
It imports retrenching all superfluities, and pruning the expression.
That we run not into the extreme of pruning so very close.
Provided always, that we run not into the extreme of pruning so very close, so as to give a hardness and dryness to style.
That we run not into the extreme of pruning so very closely.
It is scarcely possible to acquire a correct knowledge of pruning otherwise than by watching a proficient in the art.
This done, pruning is the next operation, and this should be performed in February or March.
As the roots of the plants will have been curtailed by the act of removal, more pruning is necessary the first year than at any subsequent period.
The best flowers of this tree are borne on shoots that are produced by pruning back the new growth each year.
The best part is that the tree suffers not at all if the pruning is done with some care.
This is done by pruning and by using groups of two or three plants in a place, planted some five or six feet apart.
Of course, we got a lot of self-pruning and a lot of competition, as we would in forests by the trees growing up and competing with each other and reaching for height and light.
Without pruning when young many sprouts usually develop near the ground so that the mature tree has numerous trunks of about equal size, with the lower lateral branches resting on the ground.
One day he was telling me an anecdote of his taking honey from an old-fashioned straw beehive; another day the talk was of pruning fruit-trees.
The problems in pruning are more of the mind than the hand and once the work is laid out it goes along rapidly.
Of all fruit-trees, pruning is most used with the peach in regulating the development of the tree.
The trees of these Indian peaches have a smack of wildness which the best of pruningdoes not wholly subdue.
These objections to pruning to a whip have brought about a modification in which the branches are cut back to stubs of two or three buds.
Summer-pruning is not practiced in New York peach-orchards.
The pruning of the third season is much the same, except that some of the interior branches should be removed to open up the heads to air and sunshine.
This record of pruning practices in New York cannot be closed without stating that there are growers who do not prune--not only through neglect but as a matter of principle.
Certainly no harm is done by such summer-pruning when the trees are strong and vigorous.
Indispensable as a certain amount of pruning is in training the peach, there is no question in the minds of those who have studied the subject but that it is much more often overdone than underdone.
There are no fixed rules in pruning peaches and to discuss in full the diverse theories and practices is not within the range of this exposition.
The results of these methods I have observed in different forests, but only once have I seen pruning by rain.
The adults stood aloft upon their toes and their mighty tails, their talons pruning every available leaf and twig.
Here find a home all nigh-forgotten herbs; The sage and rosemary nod side by side; A giant lavender no pruning curbs, With us each year the honesties abide.
For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.
He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.
I do not approve of rigorous pruning of old trees showing signs of feebleness.
In resuscitating old neglected apple-trees, rigorous pruning may be combined with plowing and manuring of the ground.
In our climate pruning may be done at convenience, from the fall of the leaf until the 1st of April.
Thus in the length of stem occupied by five buds you have buds facing in five different directions--plenty of choice for all pruning purposes.
He did not want the straight, shapely sticks from their mountain land, but gnarled and crooked billets, cut from trees about the place that had required pruning and removal.
It is suggested that undercutting and root pruning the seedlings several times while in the nursery row should produce a more adequate root system which would transplant well after grafting.
First, removing that portion of the stock, note he used a pruning saw, makes a cut at the point where he wants to graft.
The flowers are borne on seasoned growth of the current year: this fact must be considered when pruning the plants.
In further pruning leave the leading shoots untouched, but shorten all others to 4 in.
The main objects to bear in mind in Pruning any kind of bush or tree are to prevent a congested growth of the branches, to remove any shoots that cross each other, as well as all useless and dead wood, and to obtain a well-balanced head.
The pruning should be done as soon as the leaves fall.
As they have a tendency to gumming and canker, the knife should be used as little as possible, but where pruning is necessary, let it be done in the summer.
In pruningstandards aim at producing an equally balanced head, which object is furthered by cutting to buds pointing outwards.
In pruning the bushes, remember that the fruit is borne on the young wood, therefore only sufficient should be cut away to allow of the admission of air and sunshine and the further growth of young branches.
In pruning adopt the same method as for the vine or other plants which bear flowers on wood of the same year's growth.
The only pruning necessary is to keep the branches well balanced.
In pruning wall trees the main object is to get the side-shoots equally balanced, and to prevent the growth advancing in the centre.
Some of the pruning may be done in summer, but directly the leaves fall is the time to perform the main work.
I have a very fine five-year-old Hall variety on my side lawn that shows the neglect of proper pruning at the right time.
These trees referred to are mostly three years old and at that age the pruning should be done very systematically.
Pruning is as old as horticulture itself, but the Persian walnut has escaped this treatment thus far.
There is another great advantage in the proper method of pruning the young Persian, that is, that the finest kind of bud wood becomes available.
You will please remember that in pruningthe walnut we are not pruning for color as with other fruits.
Pruning should begin early in the life of the young tree and as soon as it leaves the nursery the pruning shears should be in evidence.
At the time of William's expedition, Brittany itself was evidently taking its turn at such vigorous shearing and pruning of the life of its fertile hills and valleys.
Everybody thought that England had never seen such dark days, but so everybody thought when the Angles and Saxons and Jutes came, and even so vigorous a pruning and digging at the roots as this made England grow the better.
It is quite hardy, bears pruning well, and grows quickly, soon covering a large space of a wall or warm, sunny bank.
It bears hard pruning back with impunity, and succeeds in any light, rich, loamy soil.
That you, by constantly pruning my affections to concentrate them on God, by pruning my ideas, from a terror of atheism, by robbing him of my heart and leaving nothing but duty, had left him nothing of his wife but the slave of his desires.
