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FRUIT TREES. 



France) lOd. per square yard, not including the cost 

 of fixing. 



Pruning the Peach in Vertical Cordon. When the 

 wall is as high as twelve feet or more, it may be pre- 

 ferable to train peaches in vertical cordon, as described 

 for pear trees (p. 119). In this case, the trees are 

 planted two feet apart, and trained in the same way as 

 pear trees of this form. If a trellis be used, it should 

 be the same as the one just described, only the lines of 

 wire must be vertical. 



MODE OF FORMING FRUIT-BRANCHES ON THE 

 PEACH. 



The mode of training that we have already described 

 is that which has been universally recommended and 

 followed up to the present time. 



For some years, however, we have been occupied 

 with a new method, of which we did not intend to say 

 anything until time had sufficiently proved its advan- 

 tages. The new form* was first practised in 1847, by 

 M. Picot-Amet, of Aincourt, near Magny, and a little 

 later by M. Grin, sen., of Bourgneuf, Chartres, but 

 with great improvements. We saw, in October, 1856, 

 at M. Grin's, such striking results from this method, 

 which had been practised by him for five years upon 

 the same trees, that we do not hesitate to recommend 



* This method is not altogether so new as may be supposed, for the 

 leading principles of it are described by an English writer, and in the 

 Jardinier Solitaire, published in 1712. But to M. Grin belongs the 

 merit of re-discovery and directing public attention to it. 



