

CHAPTER VI. 



TRAINING. 

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This constitutes more than one half the 

 labor of an English fruit gardener. In the 

 United States, out of the vicinity of Boston, 

 it is but very little practiced, and, except in 

 the extreme northern parts of the country, it 

 is not to be recommended to the economical 

 cultivator. 



1. Training upon a, trellis or wall. The 

 British gardeners train their trees perfectly 

 flat. Taste and ingenuity may weary them- 

 selves, in varying this mode of forming trees. 

 But taste will always have a regard for a 

 symmetrical regularity, in the arrangement of 

 the branches of the tree, and ingenuity ought 

 in all cases to conform to the requisitions of 

 taste. 



The branches may be trained regularly 

 downward, horizontally, or upward in a 

 fanlike manner. It ought to be borne in 

 mind, in pruning to shape a tree, that 



