I'SS THE FRUIT GAUDEN. [jAN, 



not be trained so handsomely on such, in the fan 

 manner, as on higher walls, 



Mr Knight, in his communication to the London 

 Horticultural Society, on a neit' method of training 

 Jruit-trecSy observes, " that v.hen trees are, by any 

 means, deprived of the motion which their branches 

 naturally receive from the winds, the forms in which 

 they are trained operate more powerfully on their 

 permanent health and vigour, than is generally 

 imagined. " In this sentiment I perfectly agree ; 

 and I may be allowed to add, that I have been en- 

 gaged in the training of fruit-trees these twenty- 

 iive years, and have trained them in a great variety 

 of forms. Some in the Dutch style, running out 

 two branches first, perfectly horizontal, right and 

 left, to the extent of three or four yards each way, 

 and from these training shoots perfectly upright, at 

 nine inches apart, to the top of the wall ; some with 

 screwed stems and horizontal branches ; some with 

 upright stems and horizontal branches ; some with 

 stems six feet high, with pendant, upright, and ho- 

 rizontal branches, so as to appear like a star ; and 

 others in the fan manner ; which last, I confess, I 

 prefer to ail other methods of training wall-tr<?es. 

 I have altered many from the above ibrms to this, 

 both on walls and espaliers. 



The distance at which the principal branches 

 should be laid in, is from nine to twelve inches, ac- 

 cording to the strength and nature of the tree, some 

 growing more gross, both in wood and leaves, than 

 c^tliers. Trees that have arrived at a full bearing 

 state, aijd have filled the spaces allotted to them, re- 

 cjuire nothing farther in respect to pruning, than to 



