TRAINING. 



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p. 143. A common mode for the Fuchsia, the pelargonium, the Maurandia, the 

 Petunia, &c., and also for the grape, is shown in figs. 264 and 265, which 



are formed 



of rods and 



rings of 



stout wire, 



as shown in 



figures 266 



& 267, the 



whole be- 



ing painted 



green, or of 





a 



the colour, 



of bark aC- Fig. 265- Frame-uork for training the grape- 

 Cording tO vinevhengrovninpot*. 



the taste of the gardener or his employer. In 

 training slender climbers or twiners, such as 

 Kennedia rubicunda, nails are driven into the 

 wall near the ground (fig. 268, a), and three or 

 four feet above it (&), close to which the plant 

 is placed ; strings are drawn from the lower 

 nails to those above, and the stems of the plant 

 twined round them. 

 789. Training hardy-flowering shrubs in the open ground. Trailing and 

 creeping shrubs seldom require any assistance from art, excepting when they 

 are made to grow upright on posts, trellises, or 

 walls. In general all creepers that are trained 

 upright, and all climbers, whether by twining, 

 tendrils, hooks, rootlets as the ivy, or mere 

 elongation as in the Lycium and the climbing 

 roses, when they are to form detached objects, 

 should be trained to stakes with expanded tops, Fig. 267. wire 

 such as those shown in fig. 95 in page 164, as by shown in fiff - : 

 this means ample heads are formed, which, in the case of the 

 honeysuckle, the clematis, the rose, &c , exhibit splendid masses 

 of blossom. Fig. 269 is a portrait 

 *-! of a climbing rose, trained down 



from a ring which forms the top to 

 an iron rod, as shown in one of the 

 figures in p. 164. This is called the 

 balloon manner of training, and was 

 f 0r first applied to apple-trees. When 

 supporting the rod is fixed in the ground, the 



formthfraLe- Tin % at ^e to P snou l d stand an inch 



work shown in or two higher than the graft at the 



fig. 264. top of the stock, or than the head 



formed on the stem of the plant, if it should not 

 have been grafted. Six or eight of the strongest 

 shoots are then to be selected, and tied to the 



ring with tarred twine ; and if, from their length, Fig<268> Modeo f trainin ^ rbac 

 they are liable to blow about, their ends are at- climbers on a brick trail. 



ngs 

 264 ' 



wire 

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