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FRL'IT TREES. 



apply this method, in 1852, and gave it the present 

 name of oblique cordon (fig. 98). The following is the 

 way to proceed : 



Choose healthy and vigorous young trees of one 

 year's grafting, carrying only one stem. Plant them 



Fig. 99.-Cordon, First Year. 



Fig. 100. -Cordon, Second Year. 



16 inches apart, and incline them one over the other at 

 an angle of 60 degrees. Cut off about a third of the 

 length at A (fig. 99), just above a front fruit-bud. 



During the following summer favour as much as 

 possible the development of the terminal shoot; all 

 the others must be transformed into fruit-branches by 

 the same means as described for pyramidal trees. By 

 spring of the following year each of the young trees 

 will present the aspect of figure 100. 



