OBLIQUE DOUBLE ROD TRAINING. 



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This is done by bending down the growth at the 

 end of the first year, and permitting the uprights to 

 proceed from it. On the right, after the rod has 

 become formed the lower bud is allowed to burst, 

 and throw up the remaining shoot. 



Oblique double rod training. This is practised in 



some parts of France, and is somewhat similar to 

 the simple rod-training. The trees are four feet 

 and four inches apart. A single limb is first grown, 

 and when it is strong enough, is bent to the angle 

 {a) (&), and the lowest bud at the point where it 

 bends is allowed to make another arm, which is 

 afterwards placed as in (c) [d). All these inclined 

 methods of training the branches have for their 

 object the improvement of the fruit in quality and 

 quantity ; the bend causes a stagnant flow of sap, 

 which is favorable to that object. 



Double oblique rod training. This differs from the 



simple method only in the fact that the branches 



are placed at one foot apart instead of three, and 



that it is composed of a single tree. Great care 



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