Orchard Notes
The present is a good time to look round the orchard and make notes as to pruning and mnnurial requirements during the following season. A strong growing tree will need little winter pruning beyond the thinning out of surplus wood. A weak specimen will benefit from hard pruning in the way of tipping and spurring. Notes should be made of trees that are overcrowded, so that the lower parts are shaded and light cannot get to tho fruit. A tree with large, tough-looking, dark green leaves will not need much in tho way of manures, but a tree with small pale leaves will stand heavy feeding, and more especially with manures containing nitrogen. Jt is much easier to gauge tho needs of a'fruit tree while the foliage is on the branches than in the dormant season.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22949, 29 January 1938, Page 10 (Supplement)
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