26 JULY 1957, Page 26
PEAR PRUNING PEAR PRUNING
Certain varieties of pear fruit on the tips of ner shoots and not on spurs and these should be f3,„ fully handled when summer pruning, only the no of the crowded tree being relieved by the 0319 - of shoots. An established tree should be cari to the usual number of branches and not allow make thicker growth likely to absorb too ma' the tree's strength.