THE FRUIT-TREE AND SHRUB 

 PRUNER. 



PART I. 



THE PRUNING AND TRAINING OF FRUIT 



TREES. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE PEACH. 



Fig. 1 is a maiden Peach-tree one year old. This rod 

 may remain nearly entire except that a few inches 

 may be taken off the top ; and if the tree is planted on 

 the wall in the month of November it may certainly re- 

 main as a nucleus for Figs. 2, 

 3, and 4. This manner of train- 

 ing has many advantages 

 peculiar to itself : first, as 

 much fruit may be had from 

 low walls as from walls twice 

 as high, as by training them 

 obliquely much more wood can 

 be commanded in order to 

 produce fruit ; and by this 

 method of close cordon train- 

 ing a greater number of trees 



can be planted on the walls — instead of the trees being 

 ten or fifteen feet apart, these cordon trees may be 

 planted two feet asunder, by which means more fruit 

 (and much finer too) may be had from the same space 

 of wall. 



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