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NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHEMISTRY, 



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MAY, 1S09. 



ARTICLE I. 



On a new Method of training Fruit Trees, By Thomas 

 Andrew Knight, F. R. S. fyc*. 



ROM the result of experiments I have made to ascer- Usual forms o? 

 tain the influence of gravitation on the descending sap of training trees 

 trees, and the cause of the descent of the radicle, and as- e ectlTe ' 

 cent of the expanding plumule of germinating seedsf , I 

 have been induced to believe, that none of the forms, in 

 which fruit trees are generally trained, are those best calcu- 

 lated to promote an equal distribution of the circulating 

 fluids; by which alone permanent health and vigour, and 

 power to afford a succession of abundant crops, can be 

 given. I have therefore been led to try a method of train- a different 

 ing, which is, I believe, different from any that has been manner tried 

 practised; and as the success of this method has fully an- Wlt k success. 



* Trans, of the Horticultural Society, p. 79. 



■f Phil. Trans, for I806 and I8O75 or Journal, Vol. XIV, p. 409, and 

 XIX, 241. 

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