THE FAN-TRAINED PEACH. 



developed fan-trained Peach-tree. The process of con- 

 trolling the growth of these trees is different from that 

 in the case of the " cordon tree," for it is rather incon- 

 venient to lift an established four- year-old, well-deve- 

 loped fan-trained tree. 



Now I think that just here I cannot do better than 

 give my own experience relative to the management of 

 such trees. I once had the care of a fine lot of Peach- 

 trees in a most luxuriant condition — too much so, for 

 they made too much wood, and little fruit could be got 

 from them. They had been too freely thinned out, too 

 severely pruned. "Well," thought I, "this will not 

 do ; " so, instead of pruning them so much, I laid in all 

 the young wood that I possibly could, and the result was 



Fig. 6. 



a complete taming down of the growth of them, and 

 many dozens of fruit on each tree, which had to be dis- 

 carded every season afterwards. There is no doubt 

 that this is the proper management of over-luxuriant 

 fan-trained Peach and Nectarine trees. I care not how 

 luxuriant a tree may be, my object is to get it fully de- 

 veloped as soon as I can reasonably do so, and then I 

 will control it according to its constitution, let that be 

 strong or weak. 



Fig. 7 is an example of a Peach-tree badly managed. 

 Now, perhaps, some would not so regard it, from what 

 I have witnessed of late, much to my regret ; but no 

 good practical hand will call it a good specimen of 

 Peach culture. The chief fault among partially expe- 



