Guide to Pruning Fruit Trees for a Productive Orchard

This vintage text contains a detailed guide to pruning fruit trees, and includes information on pruning equipment, common problems, correct methods of pruning, and more. This accessible and profusely illustrated guide contains all the information needed for successful pruning, and will be of considerable utility to the modern fruit grower.

Chapters of the Book

How Trees Bear their Fruit

How Peaches are Borne

The Quince

General Principles of Pruning

Pruning Tools

Pruning Saws

Pruning Shears

Actual Pruning

Young Trees

Bearing Trees

Time to Prune

How to Prune

Dressings for Wounds

We are republishing this antiquarian book now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on growing fruit.