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THE GARDEN ART OF TREE PRUNING
SHAPING & TRAINING DOMESTIC PLANTS
Every gardener or yard owner has at one time or another needed to prune a plant or tree.
There are proper techniques one should follow when undertaking this task. These will help to make the job go faster, more efficiently and with better end results.
This is a beautiful document that details the very essence of pruning and training plants in our yards and gardens. There is a heavy emphasis on fruit trees such as apples & pears with a long section on grape pruning.
Exactly what every gardener needs to keep their trees looking and functioning beautifully
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Part I - The Fundamentals
Chapter I - The Philosophy of Pruning
Does pruning devitalize plants
Chapter II - The Fruit-Bud
The bud and the branch
The leaf-bud and the fruit-ud
The fruit-spur as illustrated by the apple
The fruit-spur as illustrated by the pear
The fruit-spur as illustrated by the plum and cherry
The peach and the apricot
Gooseberries, currants and juneberries
Co-terminal fruit bearing
Grapes and brambles
How to tell the fruit-buds
Summary synopsis of the positions of fruit-buds
Chapter III - The Healing Of Wounds
The nature of the wound
Suggestions to the pruner
When to cut the branches
Dressing for wounds
How to make the cut
The mending of trees
Chapter IX - The Principles Of Pruning
Heavy top-pruning produces wood
Heavy root-pruning lessens wood
Heavy top-pruning rejuvenates the plant
Pruned plant resumes its normal habit
Habit varies from youth to age
One part lives at expense of another
Watersprouts are results of distrubed equilibrium
Plants grow from uppermost buds
Heading-in develops lateral buds
Effect of obstructions
Checking grouth induces fruitfulness
Fruit-bearing is determined by habit
Gridling and the like are special practices
Pruning thins the fruit
Heading-in induces fruitfulness
Season of pruning influences fruitfulness
Pruning depends upon locality and climate
What influences the healing of wounds?
Dressings
General Law
Part II - The Incidentals
Chapter V - Some Specific Advice
The form of the top
How to trim young plants
Root-pruning
Root-pruning when transplanting
Subsequent treatment of the plants
Management of top-worked trees
Management of dwarf trees
Ringing and girdling
Pruning tools
Remarks on specific plants
Apple
Apricot
Cherry
Orange
Peacfh
Pear
Plum
Quince
Blackberries and raspberries
Currants and gooseberries
Shade trees
Hedges
Ornamental plants
Chapter VI - Some Specific Modes Of Training
European practice
Trees and bushes in pots
Other Special modes of training
Chapter VII - American Grape Training - General Sketch
Pruning the grape
Pruning young vines
When to prune
Summer pruning
Making the trellis
Tying
Chapter VIII - American Grape Training - The Various Modes
The upright systems
Horizontal arm spur system
The high renewal
Fan training
The drooping systems
The true or four-cane kniffin
Modifications of the four-can kniffin
The two-cane kniffin or umbrella system
The low or one-wire kniffin
The six-cane kniffin
Eight-cane kniffin
Caywood, overhead, or arbor kniffin
The cross-wire system
Renewal kniffin
The munson system
Modified munson
Miscellaneous systems
Horizontal training
Post training
Arbors
Remodeling old vines
Chapter IX - Vinefera Grape Training
California Practice
Proper method of making cuts
Short and long-pruning
Pruning of young vines
Systems of pruning
Summer pruning
Classification of the varieties
Glass-house practice
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