{"newspaper_name": "The Arkansas banner.", "edition": "01", "page": "p4", "byline": ""}
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PRUNING PEACH TREEs.-The editors of the New York Cultivator, in giving an ac- count of their visit to the beautiful and exten- sive grounds of Mcssrs. Downing, at New berg, N Y., and their management in the nursery and fruit orchard, describe their mode of pruning peach trees as follows: "Thev practice new mode of pruning peach trees :; at least, it is new to us It is cutting off half to two-thirds the new wood of the limbs, every autumn. The advantages are that the wood hardens better-the soft and tender twlgs, not sufficiently matured to stand the winter, and which are besides most likely 10 be injured by the aphis or other insects, are taken away, by which the sap and wood of the remainder, are rendered more sound and healthy. The number of fruit buds for the succeeding year are increased, and there are plenty of leaves by which the sap is more perfectly elaborated and the fruit made large