CHAPTER VI 



SOME SPECIFIC MODES OF TRAINING 



There are many modes of training which are 

 so special and of such local and personal appli- 

 cation, that they should be considered in a class 

 by themselves. They are essentially Old World 

 methods, born of garden -culture and of cli- 

 mates less hot and sunny than ours. (See re- 

 marks under Section 13, Chapter IV.). They are 

 not adapted to commercial fruit-growing or plant- 

 growing in this country, nor to any country in 

 which land is cheap and hand labor dear. Yet, 

 so common are these special methods of training 

 fruit-trees in Europe that the Old World litera- 

 ture of pruning is largely descriptive of methods 

 and modes of growing plants on walls and trel- 

 lises and in geometrical figures. It is not neces- 

 sary to make any extended discussion of these 

 matters in this book, although a few summary 

 hints may be given for the benefit of those who 

 want the fun of training a few plants or who 

 desire to copy European methods. For details 

 the reader should consult foreign books, espe- 

 cially those in French. 



We may analyze the subject as follows: 

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