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practised it, he has always had larger and better flavored 

 fruit. This practice, says Mr. Loudon, " is not uncommon 

 in England with apple and pear trees, and very general 

 with regard to vines under glass." 



SUBS. 3d. BENDING THE LIMBS. This appears to be 

 the most simple, easy, and effectual mode of rendering 

 trees productive. When judiciously performed, its effects 

 are very extraordinary. 



The effects appear to be perfectly understood by the 

 Chinese in training their dwarfs. Its effects are also ex- 

 emplified in the mode of training trees en quenouille, which 

 come into bearing earlier, and bear more abundantly. 



Dwarfing is effected by inoculating fruit trees on stocks 

 of comparatively slow growth ; the circulation is in conse- 

 quence retarded, and the effect thus produced is somewhat 

 like that produced by girdling. The apple is dwarfed by 

 being inoculated on the Paradise or Doucin stock ; the 

 peach on a slow-growing plum stock ; and the pear by 

 being inoculated on the quince stock ; anew mode of 

 dwarfing I shall presently explain ; by means simply of 

 bending, prodigious crops are produced on the vine; [see 

 the article on the cultivation of the vine ;] also on the fig ; 

 for by this mode Mr. Knight has obtained eight crops in a 

 year. [See the article on the Jig.] The system is equally 

 applicable to every species of fruit tree. It consists in 

 bending every limb or twig, to a position below the hori- 

 zontal, while it is yet in a vigorously-growing state, gen- 

 erally the last of June ; with some kinds, which have a 

 prolonged vegetation, it may, perhaps, with more advan- 

 tage, be deferred till July, as in the case of the peach. 

 The effect produced in the first instance is a momentary 

 suspension of the growth; the juices are concentrated, 

 and form fruit buds, for the production of fruit in the fol- 

 lowing year. 



According to Mr. Neill, training the bearing shoots of 

 pear trees downwards, generally causes them to produce 

 fruit the second year, which would seldom otherwise pro- 

 duce fruit under six or seven years. And Mr. Knight 

 recommends to bend the young, luxuriant shoots of the 

 peach, instead of shortening, [as recommended in the arti- 

 cle below.l They thus produce the finest possible bearing 

 wood for the next year. 



