The Handy Book on Pruning, Grafting & Budding |
Common terms and phrases
Apple Stock Apple Tree Apricot better bloom bush trees canes Castel Coch centre Cherry clay consists of cutting cordon Crataegus CROWN-GRAFTING Currant tree cut back desired disbudding Droitwich espalier EVESHAM Experimental Garden figure 19 finger and thumb flowers fruit spurs fruit trees fruit-bearing Gooseberry Grafted on Apple GROWERS grown Horticultural Hydrangea laterals leading shoot leaves length light and air Lord Grosvenor main branches MORELLO CHERRIES natural habit Nectarines old wood operation Peach Pear pear tree Pershore Photograph Planted Plum plum trees produce fruit pruning fruit trees rightly-placed root-pruning roots scion and stock secondary branches Seedling severely shewn in figure shews shortened SHRUBS side six inches soil space standard trees stem Stirling Castle stone fruit subsequent suitable summer-pruning superfluous Tamarix Tea-scented trained trees Viburnum vines winter wood-bud wounds year's growth YEAR'S PRUNING young branch young growth young shoots young trees young wood