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    A Guide to Pruning the Roots of Fruit Trees
    A Guide to Pruning the Roots of Fruit Trees
    A Guide to Pruning the Roots of Fruit Trees
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    A Guide to Pruning the Roots of Fruit Trees

    By Liberty Hyde Bailey

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    All aspects of root pruning fruit trees are covered in this informative article written by an expert on the subject. Thoroughly recommended reading for the budding home gardener. Illustrated with black and white drawings and diagrams forming a complete how-to guide. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 8, 2016
    ISBN9781473354791
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      A Guide to Pruning the Roots of Fruit Trees - Liberty Hyde Bailey

      A Guide to Pruning

      the Roots of Fruit

      Trees

      by

      Liberty Hyde Bailey

      Contents

      ROOT-PRUNING

      ROOT-PRUNING

      In order to understand the vexed question of root-pruning, it is necessary that the subject be analyzed. We prune the roots

      I. Of established plants—

      1. To keep the growth within bounds, particularly when it is desired that the plant shall be dwarf;

      2. To concentrate or contract the foraging of the roots;

      3. To make plants fruitful.

      II. Of plants which are being transplanted.

      We have already found (Section 2, Chap. IV.) that root-pruning checks growth: it cuts off a part of the food supply. Checking growth induces fruitfulness (Section 11, Chap. IV.). The same principles of physiology govern the practice of root-pruning as that of top-pruning. The wounds heal by the formation of a callus, germs of decay enter exposed wounds, new or adventitious roots start as the result of heavy pruning, the severed leader (or tap-root) tends to renew itself (see Fig. 115), and the general remarks respecting seasons for pruning apply to roots with nearly the same force as to tops. Since roots have no buds, the new branches do not arise in as definite order as they do on tops, but this is a matter of no consequence, for the shape of the root system is of no practical importance. The direction of the roots is important, however,—whether they run horizontally and

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