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The purposes of this chapter are to assure the inexperienced: 1) that the growing of palatable fruits of any kind, on trees young or old, is a chancy business; 2) that it is, however, quite possible to weight the chances in your favor, provided that you are prepared to cultivate, prune, spray, and otherwise pamper your trees with unremitting diligence. Since trees already grown present the new owners' most immediate problem, these will be discussed first. Exceptional are fruit trees which, when inhabited land changes hands, have been properly cared for over the past year or two. In most cases their pruning will have been neglected, their spraying and feeding omitted entirely. |
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