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The wood shoots will be thrown out on the upper sides of the re- 

 versed branches, and in winter may be cut out or brought down as 

 before for a second tier, as in Fig. 15 ; and, on the same principles, 



Fig. 13. 



Fig. 14. 



Fig. 15. 



may be carried to a greater height. Remove all collaterals as soon 

 as discovered, and as the reversed branches are worn out they must 

 be cut away, and fresh ones brought down. Two tiers will be as 

 much as will be manageable or useful. 



The " spiral cylinder" is well adapted to small gardens. Prune 

 and manage the tree so that it shall form four or six branches of 

 nearly equal size near the ground, Fig. 16. When these are three 

 to five feet long, fix six rods or stakes into the earth for supports, in 



a circle about the root, as in Fig. IT, the centre dot marking the 

 root and the others the rods. Each branch is then to be brought 

 down, and, being fixed to the rod near its base, the branch is to be 



Fig. 16. 



Fig. 17. 



Fig. 18. 



carried round in a spiral manner, on such an elevation as will form 

 an inclination of fifteen degrees, each being fixed in the same man- 

 ner ; thus all will move in the same direction, like so many cork- 

 screws, as we see in the Cereus tribe in windows, wound round up- 

 right sticks, Fig. 18. 



As trees trained in this manner need never exceed the bounds 

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