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TRAINING. 



line is marked off the distances between the shoots, which are ten 

 inches each. The lateral shoots are laid in about a foot asunder, as 

 at a, in this figure. In the third or fourth year, and sometimes in the 

 second, instead of laying in all the side shoots at full length, some of 



Fig. 290. 



Seymour's fan-training, third stage after the winter pruning. 



them are shortened, so as to get two leading shoots from as many side 

 shoots as may be necessary to fill the wall, as shown at , b. If the 

 double side shoots thus produced are strong, they may be laid in their 



Fig. 291. 



Seymour's fan-training) fifth year. 



whole length; but if weak, they must be cut short to give them 

 strength. Occasionally a side shoot may be made to produce three 



