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If these treble cordons are planted two feet apart, 
and three rods are allowed to each tree, laid in at six 
inches apart, they will cover the whole wall much 
sooner than can be done in any other manner. In the 
first place, plant strong maidens, cut these back to three 
eyes at the base; next get three good strong rods and 
lay them in for permanent cordons the following season. 
The next season every eye or bud will or should give a 
shoot, and as soon as these have each made two or three 
Fie. 16.—TREBLE CORDON OBLIQUE CHERRY, WINTER PRUNED, 
inches of growth, nip the point out, thus a fruit-spur 
will soon be formed corresponding more or less with the 
illustration above. If there isa tendency in the plants 
to make more growth at the points of the leaders than 
should be made, and which would draw too much 
upon the laterals (which will be seen by the weakness 
of the latter), nip the points out, this will induce the 
laterals to make more growth, which is necessary till 
