CLIMATOLOGY 



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good many years. The tree is taken in hand during 

 its first year in the garden and the main stem is bent 

 to a horizontal position, the bend being made as 

 near the ground as possible. The tree is then trained 

 so as to develop this horizontal trunk to a length 

 of 6 or 8 feet in a manner very much like that em- 

 ployed in training horizontal pear or apple trees. 

 It is simply necessary to have a wooden rod or pole 

 set horizontally at the proper height (8-14 inches) 

 from the ground, and to keep the young leader tied 

 to this as the tree stem grows. This will require a 

 little attention every week or ten days during the 

 rush of the growing season. 



When this main stem has reached a horizontal 

 length of 6 or 8 feet it is given another right-angled 

 bend and turned to its natural upright direction. 

 On this upright shoot the head is formed in the usual 

 manner. The complete tree, therefore, consists of a 

 normal bushy head connected with a normal root 8 

 feet to one side by an abnormal horizontal trunk. 



By a simple, safe and 

 ,>;^!^^^ ^^^y pi'ocess of tor- 



sion this head can 

 now be turned side- 

 down to the 

 staked there 

 and covered in the 

 \''^}^;JJ^^^.' same manner as de- 

 ^^fjf0^'-^^^ scribed for the fore- 

 gomg method (page 

 19). When the blos- 

 soms begin to open in 

 the spring the cover- 









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MR. MACOMBER'S METHOD OF TRAINING 



