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TRAINING. 



shown in fig. 294, encouraging the shoots produced from a, a, to 

 throw out branches to fill the centre of the tree. There can be 

 no doubt that this is a very systematic and beautiful mode of training, 

 and its perfect symmetry ought strongly to recommend it to the 

 amateur who has leisure. 



Fig. 294. 



Fig. 296. 



Seymour's fan-training, (suited to a low wall. 



Fan-training in the wavy or curvilinear manner is founded on the 

 fact, that the sap will always flow in the greatest quantity to the most 

 vertical buds ; so that on a branch bent like an inverted siphon, however 

 low the centre may be, yet if the extreme point be turned upwards, 

 the buds there will produce vigorous upright shoots, however distant 

 they may be from the main stem. If a branch be fixed in a vertical 



position, the strongest 

 Fig. 295. shoot will be produced 



at the point-bud a, in 



fig. 295, as it will also 



if the shoot should be 



bent, as shown at b and 



c in the same figure. 



Again, if a branch be 



fixed in a horizontal position, as in fig. 



296, the strongest shoot will be produced 



from the most vertical bud near the base 

 of the shoot, as at d, and the shoot produced from e will be the 

 weakest; but by turning up the point of this horizontal shoot, as 

 at fig. 297, /, nearly as strong a shoot will be produced as if the 

 branch had been fixed in a vertical position, even though the 

 bud at g should be at a considerable distance from the main stem 

 of the plant. The bud at /, in this example, will also make a 

 strong shoot. It is easy to conceive how these facts may be taken 



Illustrating the principles of 

 wavy-training. 



Illustrative of wavy- 

 training. 



