CH. 7.] PEACHES AND NECTARINES. 



SECTION IV. 



On training * and Pruning. 



FAN-training is the only way in which 

 Peaches will do well. Therefore* 

 after, planting, and to make the trees put 

 forth vigoroufly and fill the trellis from 

 the bottom, (I ipeak of the dwarfs), head 

 them down to two or three eyes on each 

 moot, if maiden, and to the laft eye on 

 each branch, if one-year-trained trees. 



The riders being temporary, and pla- 

 ced here only for the purpofe of obtain- 



K4 ing 



* Much has been faid, of late, refpe&ing training on 

 horizontal trellifes -, and fome have even been at the 

 trouble of ere&ing them in a manner whereby (by the 

 ufe of ropes and pullies) they can deprefs or elevate 

 them at pleafure. This, I confefs, is both minute and 

 reasonable, where it can be praclifed. But 1 am incli- 

 ned to think that it cannot eaiily be done without itrain- 

 ing the tree in the movement ; and it is obvious that 

 it cannot be done by any but a fmall trellis placed in 

 the middle of the houfe. After all, the production of 

 well-flavoured fruit depends much more on the judici- 

 ous management throughout, than on what pofition the 

 trellis be,. 



