motion, im- 

 portant. 



2 NEW METHOD or TRAINING FREIT TREE!. 



swered every expectation I hud formed, I have thought a 

 concise account of it might not In: unacceptable to the Hor- 

 ticultural Society. I confine my account to the peach 

 tree, though, with a little variation, the method of training 

 and pruning, that I recommend, is applicable, even with su- 

 perior advantages, to the cherry, plum, and pear tree; and 

 Form of train- I must observe, that when trees are by any means deprived 

 u^trcMwben f t » motion, which their branches naturally receive from 



thoir branches # J 



aredeprived of winds, the forms in which they are trained operate more 



powerfully on their permanent health and vigour, than is 

 generally imagined. 

 New metkod My peach trees, which were plants of one year old only, 

 were headed down, as usual, early in the spring, and two 

 shoots only were trained from each stem in opposite direc- 

 tions, and in an elevation of about 5 degrees ; and when the 

 two shoots did not grow with equal luxuriance, I depressed 

 the strongest, or gave a greater elevation to the weakest, by 

 which means both were made to acquire and to preserve an 

 equal degree of vigour. These shoots, receiving the whole 

 sap of the plants, grew with much luxuriance, and in the 

 course of the summer each attained about the length of four 

 feet. Many lateral shoots were of course emitted from the 

 young luxuriant branches ; but these were pinched off at the 

 first or second leaf, and were in the succeeding winter wholly 

 destroyed; when the plants, after being pruned, appeared 

 Should be as represented in PI. I, Fig. I. This form, I shall here 

 thenuTcry '" observe, might with much advantage be given to trees while 

 in the nursery ; and perhaps it is the only form, which can be 

 given without subsequent injury t* the tree : it is also a 

 form that can be given with very little trouble or expenge to 

 the nurseryman. 

 Second year. In the succeeding season as many brandies were suffered 

 to spring from each plant as could be trained conveniently, 

 without shading each other; and by selecting the strongest 

 and earliest buds towards the points of the year old branches, 

 and the weakest and latest near their bases, I was enabled to 

 give to each aunual shoot nearly an equal degree of vigour; 

 and the plants appeared in the autumn of the second year 

 Dearly as represented in Fig. 2. The experienced gardener 

 will here observe, that I exposed a greater surface of leaf 



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