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SOME SPECIFIC ADVICE 



American orchards, although there are few plan- 

 tations in which it has been systematically worked 

 out. Probably the best example of it in America 

 is the orchard of T. G. Yeomans & Sons, Wai- 

 worth, New York, an orchard which is still vig- 



195. Pyramidal training of dwarf pears. England. 



orous and productive, although it has been com- 

 mercially successful for nearly half a century 

 (planted in 1852). Good trees from this planta- 

 tion are shown in Fig. 196. The essential feature 

 of this type of training which the writer believes 

 to be the best for American conditions is a 

 framework of several approximately coordinate 

 branches arising near the ground. 



