370 SOME SPECIFIC MODES OF TRAINING 



tional hoops. During the summer allow only one terminal 

 bud to develop. When the time arrives for the fifth opera- 

 tion, cross the branches at the place of their second fork- 

 ing, directing them alternately right and left, inclined to an 



238. Outline of pear trained in vase form. 



angle of thirty degrees. Fig. 239 shows the plan of a pear 

 tree trained in this form, and how the branches should be 

 crossed. The new extensions, obtained during the previous 

 summer, must be left entire, and so on from year to year, 

 until the tree has attained its proper size. The inclined 

 position of the branches will cause them to put forth nu- 

 merous shoots, each of which must be trained in a spiral 

 direction, to be arrested only when the tree attains a height 

 of about six or seven feet, when it will be fully formed, 

 and resemble Fig. 238. 



