TKAINING VARIOUS FORMS. 



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buds often fail. As between the renewal and 

 spur systems in all their various forms, the lat 

 ter are much to be preferred, both on account 

 of their greater simplicity, and the better qual 

 ity of the fruit. 



The Oblique System. The French are inge 

 nious as well as prolific in the forms which they 

 give to fruit trees. The &quot; cordon oblique &quot; had 

 hardly been worked out on the peach and the 

 pear, when it was also applied to the grape, as 



Fig. 85. 



may be seen in Fig. 85, which is a copy from the 

 work of M. Forney, 1862. It has such a look of 

 the Frenchman about it that one would suspect 

 its origin at first sight. Our engraver has fol 

 lowed the original literally, instead of making 

 grape wood of the stocks, as he knows how to do 



