Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1873 — Pruning Injured Trees and Vines. [ARTICLE]

Pruning Injured Trees and Vines.

Mr. M. B, Bateham, in the Northern Ohio Journal , referring to the extent of the damage done to fruit during the winter add the propriety of subsequent pruning, says: “We find much greater amount of injury than we at first supposed, done to fruit trees and grape Vines by the freezing (or thawing?) last month. It is probable that many peach and cherry treees are entirely killed, and Still more will have to be cut back very severely. But we advise the owners to let them alone fpr a month or two longer, till the extent of the damage can be more clearly seen. We have known peach trees to recover when they seemed almost hopelessly ruined. All the varieties of grapes in this region are injured somewhat’, the Concord least of any; but most of them will, no doubt, recover, with only the loss of part or all of the season’s crop, according to the extent of„ the killing of the buds and young wood. Where these are a good deal injured, it is best to prune quite severely , especially old vines and such as have made large growth, cutting out a good share of the old wood, and leaviug.the best new shoots that come out nearest the. ground, and shortening these to a foot or two in length, or even less if the buds seem mostly dead. Then afteT the new shoots have come out in June any remaining dead wood can be cut away.”