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Title: Productive orcharding, modern methods of growing and marketing fruit
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Sears, Fred Coleman, 1866-
Subjects: Fruit-culture Apples
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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re known technically as the French wheel-springshears. It seems unfortunate to be obliged to recommendan imported article; perhaps the writer has been unfortunatein the American shears he has used, but he has tried many makesand none of them have stood up under hard usage like thisFrench make. In buying such shears get good-sized ones forheavy work. A ten-inch size of this pattern is none too largewhen one is going to do a lot of heavy pruning. For example:A foreman of a pruning gang used one of these ten-inch shears 134 PRUNING for pruning about three thousand peach trees four and five yearsold, and an equal number of apple trees varying; from one to fiveyears; and after all this pruning the shears were still in goodworking order. A good knife completes the outfit for most work. A heavyknife, with a wide blade and a good hook on the end of theblade, is best. The one shown in Figure 64 suits the work admir-ably, though a man will use a pair of shears a thousand times FiQ. 64. Fig. 65.
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tiG. 64.—A good type of pruning knife. Long hooked blade and large enough for heavy-work. Fig. 65.—A good combination knife; pruning, budding and ordinary blades. for every time he uses a knife. The second knife shown inFigure 65 is a good one, with a budding blade and an ordinaryblade, in addition to the pruner. Where a man wants to dovarious things with the knife it is probably worth having.Usually, however, the workman prefers to have his blade indifferent handles, and carry only the type of knife for which hehas immediate use. YOUNG TREES 135 Actual Pruning.—Now let us sally forth with our newly-acquired pruning tools and do some actual pruning. Everydifferent tree will prove to be a different problem. This is onething that makes pruning interesting. It is not the provinceof this chapter to suggest all the types of problems that thepruner will encounter. Two of these will have to suffice. Young Trees.—The first is the young tree. Like trainingchildren this is the most impo

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