54 CORDON TRAINING. 



having been several times pinched in, look like fig. 7, they 

 must now be broken, not cut at four inches. The original 

 spurs add an inch or so to the total length, but it will always 

 be easy to keep the shoots and spurs under six inches. Some 

 of the shoots may have less than the three buds shown, which 

 is of no consequence, for one fruitful bud is enough on each 

 shoot. At the completion of the pruning (see fig. 8), when 

 in winter, the ends are finally to be cut off, — not broken now, 

 as in FIG. 7, where the object is different. When the ends 

 are finally cut off, as seen, then nothing remains to be done, 

 for the buds will have that appearance of protuberance and 

 roundness that they can no longer be mistaken. They are to 

 remain, therefore, on the shoots, one, two, or tlu-ee, but never 

 more. 



The three leaders will shortly be completed, and the wall 

 look remarkably well. An immense saving of time is gained 

 in this way. There are other irregular forms to be met witli 

 ambng the spurs, but they cannot be entered into in so brief 

 a work as this is. I will therefore only add, that as soon as 

 a pear has been produced on a shoot, cut oif the pulpy part 

 to which it held ; but only cut off the extremity, otherwise 

 the latent buds, for other seasons, will be destroyed. 



CHAP. XIII. 



HORIZONTAL, VERTICAL, AND SPIRAL CORDONS IN PEAR TREES. 



In all of these, the spurs are managed exactly as before 

 described. The Vertical Cordon may have the shape de- 

 scribed in the Miniature Fruit Garden, page 17 ; i. e. it may 

 have five leaders trained upwards. Trees on this mode bear 

 very well. It is recommended by Mr. Rivers. The distances 

 and spurs may be as described in the Diagonal Cordon. A 

 great variety of fruits is obtainable in this way, — no small 

 advantag-e. 



