Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1148/en

Different is its counterpole: the low-standard tree, cultivated in closed plantations in a monoculture-like manner on fast-growing rootstock. It grows rather as a weakly lignifying shoot from the ground and fruits close to the earth, as it were in youth. The cambium, which in the standard tree exerts a moderating effect on excessive vigour, requires in the low-standard tree a continuous stimulation through a humus-rich soil that roots can penetrate freely. The formative force and vitality of the humus continue, as it were, into the cambium itself. The low-standard tree requires a manure that in no way stimulates excessive shoot growth, but whose formative force — livingly astralized throughout by the larvae and worms of the compost heap — is akin to the cambium itself. In the standard tree, the mineralized earth turns itself inside out into trunk and branch-work of the crown. In the shoot-vigorous low-standard tree, this inversion is reduced, in favour of an equally high vitality both in the root zone and in the crown region. The intensive green manuring cultivated in low-standard and half-standard fruit growing works in the same sense.