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Fig. 66. Wall training is a beautiful way to grow dwarf fruit trees 



more oblique arms are developed from the main stem. The height 

 and the spread of the palmette may be governed by the amount of 

 dormant pruning done from year to year. Each of these arms may 

 be made to branch as desired. 



THE FAN FORM is started from a "whip" cut to a stub at eight or 

 ten inches from the ground before the buds swell. Among the shoots 

 that start those favorably placed are saved, others cut close to the 

 main stem. While the fan may ultimately have eight or ten arms only 

 four to six may be available the first season. Each sprout to be saved 

 must be fastened as early as possible to the trellis in about the position 

 it is to occupy when fully grown and be allowed to extend without 

 hindrance except when one is growing at the expense of the others. 

 The side shoots that develop upon it, however, must be pinched back 

 as already indicated. All unnecessary growths on the main trunk must 

 be suppressed. 



Before growth starts the Spring after planting the leaders must 

 be cut back to six or eight-inch stubs from which to develop new 

 branches. From these the desired number of leaders may usually be 

 secured two from some and one from others. Fastening the new 



