The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 145
rd or two on thepractice, and on the effects of the operation. Ringing a tree cuts off the part operated upon from the cir-culation of the sap, and necessitates it to subsist principally onthe nourishment which the leaves derive from the air. Wewill not say in what respects this nourishment differs… … L feet Peach and apricot trees will not bear ringing, because theyalways produce their fruit on the young wood; and the vinestill less, because it bears on the growing shoot. Ringing doesnot advance the fructification of either plum trees or youngcherry trees; and it is apt to produce the gum in…
