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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 144, 18 June 1915, Page 10

' ""MutfpTa■ .do~iio{ always reach quite . *~~sh estrones. iWe more often find the aotfasay examples, and mmo of these exist in the orchards of practical fruitgrowers. If we keep a firm faith in the fact that excess of top growth is the exuinso of death of bottom grow ill. and I we shall not find it such a j long-way to the Tipperary of a fruitful ' tree as in our experimental years was I flic case. And. after all. it would he difficult to ifrnd one of lis anywhere who did not experiment and make pruning mistakes in haphaza-rd directions before he-settled dawn to„-a-.system.

■ Various considerations, however, will-' present themselves which at first will ' befog the beginner witli tlic tapering j branch. It will not always grow, for J instance, with such delightful simplicity j ■ as it presents in the "Right way" in the drawing. There will \jc side shoots UprcadiUfT out from it in all sort* of j 1 places. Siimnier treatment is here. )ier- ! haps, indicated. Tlic orchardist must ! ask himself: " Do we need this or that .side branch?'' If there it- nn room or use for it at, all, he may cut il out at any time of the year close to the main I branch from which it springs. Or he !

may summer-shorten it. t" < "" vert it int.. n fruit-bi-uring twig. ( Ir he may M.-c -Dine purpusi- t.. In- served liy [ravins it tv strenj.-tli.-ii the growth uf that main branch tempiirarily, an.l cut it out after the fall nf the "li-.ivi-.-. Such sidogrnwths art-roitn-ti s |rni|Mir< rarily useful low down nn tiie bran. l .. hut jess often a: the tips. When wintci come ri the (.rchar.lis: j>ntr> iiii.it.iu-r .|i tion: " Do the leader.- tl-i-.l slim tenins'.'" If our sixteen bran-li.s are not ,i!I of e.|i..,-il stronglh, wo may .(iiite pro pi-rly prune hack tiie weaker- <>iu-s. Tins I of course, all ..;" iw knowi will ,-,-iu-e

ih.-tii t. mitkr- strum.-.t growth ne\: :-■■..-..,, \\„ -hall -..,,, „,.»,.'i.il i-mimais ''<■ !■ h ..| tln--n, .mil ti,,. |i r ,iu i, v :: ' ni" th.ck.-r h.w.-i .!.,« ii I:„.„. » -.:, ■■ ilhc-r .luniif- «r .wt.'i ~;■ in rtint.-: . r- . moi.- .IJ.MIII nl! 1',,, t, , -li.ii.r., ~\, ,■:,[ ~,;,.. , lim ..-il: tli.-.t ..tu- .-.i:.-: 111'_ v un.-ii: ' Ka. :. war ! I-- Hie-It I. r-n :, il of tlit- ,-.\t.- i. - .-ii ; IMII. ..Co Hill 11, |»,. -;:-t .1 -:i;M .-ii..ii,-'i : . rank.- th.- L.i iii.-h ,-n.l h.-.iv v Kn.l ii.-.niii.-s eati ..I. ;u, !.,. , ur.-.l \'.\ . :..-i.-k a ;.-.i. i.-r. mi in t.i .. i .-iii.. : .u.it ti- :ln- r;i;...ri:.i,.u. tcimm.i'. I! i«.- want t.. elu.-l. future growth ~r su:>I |■-.--< the growth in.vi- -n.T.M' into t'\- ; i.mer fruit h.i It- ».- m.iy '■>>„ so ;.-. | weakest of them a.]. 'I in. we . all I make nut si\tei-n m.i.n bran■-..•■= I.in-.: ■: .-'i'l . .-'ii":i;' or weak, ju-t I ir hk mo. Hut w,. nnwt ri-.ri.lh i .liou- a.i ! I stu.lv ..ir sy-t.-m. Tv .ut .it t in.l .-n |il wottl.l he lor a tailor to rus into a I pie I .-loth with his liiit c is-o r - with j ..at i-iui.-i.lerinjr whether th.- linMi-.l i_-.n meni. is to he .1 pair uf trwu-ei.- or .111 overcoat