fiiAP. XVITI.] THE PEACH AS A CORDON. 305 



inches from the graft, and pLaced in the ground so that the base 

 of the stem is four inches from the wall, with its extremity just 

 touching it. The roots are well spread over the hole and drawn 

 as much as possible towards the border in which the tree is 

 planted. Care is taken to leave a well-placed bud on the side 

 where the oblique branch is to be formed, and its development 

 must be encouraged by ruthlessly pinching off all useless shoots. 

 Under these conditions, the tree grows as long during the first 

 year as the one planted obliquely and allowed to be of its full 

 length from the first. This method is also to be preferred, 

 because the shoot thus obtained the first year can be left intact 

 and allowed to attain a development equal to that of the tree planted 

 according to the first method. Besides this, the shoot is calculated 

 to grow faster in consequence of its bark being less 

 hardened, and each year the terminal point may bo 

 allowed to grow without cutting back. Sometimes the 

 terminal bud does not develop, owing to its having 

 been killed by cold. In such a case a stronger eye is 

 chosen lower down to make the desired lengthening. 



" As in the case of other forms of training, the 

 branches of the Peach cordons are allowed to grow in 

 a more erect position at first than they arc finally in- 

 tended to occupy. I should advise this cordon form ^t^ewiath^e 

 to be adopted in the case of gardens whose walls are '^''""- " '^'f- 

 on the incline, as often occurs, and for soil of inferior behi^ grafted 

 quality where the Peach-tree grows slowly, because "" ""'''' 

 under such circumstances it never attains its full development. 

 The plan does not answer where the ground is flat and the con- 

 ditions are such as favour the rapid growth of the tree." 



Some fruit-growers think that there is no occasion for resorting 

 to this simple cordon in the case of the Peach, any more than in 

 the case of the Pear. M. F. Jamin, of Bourg-la-Eeine, plants in 

 his fruit-garden a form of tree with three vertical branches, and 

 if he wants a great variety of fruit from a small space, works a 

 diff'erent variety on each branch. This figure shows, on a small 

 scale, the appearance of one of his young specimens, trained on 

 this principle. The U and double U forms, described in the 

 chapter on Montreuil, are also extensively adopted by many 

 growers in preference to tlie oblique cordon. 



