TRAXSPLAXTIXG. 



proflnced in eacli yenr till the tree reaches the top of the wall (or 

 espalier), when the upright stem must terminate in two horizontal 

 branches. In the following autunm the tree will have the appearance 

 of Fig. 32." — Suburban Horticulturist, pp. 3G3 : 372. 



Hoiizoutal training, fourtli j-ear. 



Training fruit-trees is nowhere in the United States practised to 

 much extent, nor is it considered desirable in the general practice of fruit- 

 growing. The additional labor is not met by a balance in superior 

 quantity of product, and, while occasionally a few specimens may be pro- 

 cured in this manner of great beauty and excellence, the general crop is 

 not satisfactory or profitable, either to the amateur or the market-grower. 



CHAPTER YI. 



TRAXSPLAXTIKG. 



As nearly all fruit-trees are raised first in nurseries, and then re 

 moved to their final position in the orchard or fruit-garden ; as upon the 

 manner of this removal depends not only their slovv or rapid growth, 

 their feebleness or A'igor afterwards, and in many cases even their life, it 

 is evident that it is in the highest degree important to iinderstand and 

 practise well this trani^planting. 



The season best adajjted for transplanting fruit-trees is a matter 

 open to much difference of opinion among horticulturists ; a difference 

 founded mainly on experience, but without taking into account variation 

 of climate and soils, two very important circinnstances in all operations 

 of this kind. 



All ])hysiologists, how^evei", agree that the best season for transplant- 

 ing deciduous trees is in atttumn, directly after the fall of the leaf. The 

 tree is then in a completely dormant state. Transplanted at this early 

 season, whatever wounds may have been made in the roots commence 

 healing at once, as a deposit directly takes place of granulous matter 

 from the wound, and w^hen the spring arrives the tree is already some- 



