PEACHES AND NECTARINES TWO-BRANCH TRAINING. 71 



It consists in allowing maiden trees to remain their full length and securing the 

 original laterals to the wall. With particular trees and in favourable positions the 

 plan may answer, but it is not reliable. 



2. " U," or Two-branch Training. "This system } " states Mr. Eivers, " which has 



Fig. 16. "U" TRAINING APPLIED TO PEACH AND NECTASINK TBEES. 



References: Q, maiden tree ; q, point of heading. R, one-year-trained tree ; r, point of shortening the main 

 shoots ; s, point of cutting off the laterals. S, two-years-trained tree left side shows it in summer, right-hand side 

 when leafless ; t, upright on main shoots ; u, side of bearing shoots ; v, spurs ; w, point of shortening the main 

 shoots. T, tree in the third year of training ; x and y, bearing shoots ; bars and detached shoots (y) indicate points 

 of cutting out shoots that have borne fruit ; z, successional shoots for the following year's bearing ; a, continuation 

 growths of the main branches ; b, shoots to supply bearing wood. Wall wired at 6 inches apart : c, border, 2 feet 

 deep ; d, 3-inch layer of old mortar rubbish ; e, rubble, 9 inches thick : /, concrete, 3 inches deep, and inclining from 

 the wall to the 3-inch drain. 



found such favour with Continental peach growers, is undeniably more simple and 

 more productive than the fan-training in use in England." It is the double vertical 

 cordon method, distinguished from the diagonal cordon in the stems being upright and 

 the bearing wood from them trained at an angle of 45. 



