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FRUIT GARDEN. 



those which are too lax cut back. Three or four lead- 

 ing branches may be selected, to pass ere long into 

 boughs, and form a handsome skeleton for the tree ; but 

 it is useless to be over-nice in this matter, as these 

 branches will soon grow beyond the power or regula- 

 tion of the pruner,. and of any artificial system which 

 he may adopt. Dwarf standards being more accessible, 

 are more under the dominion of training. When worked 

 on paradise stocks, they maybe kept not much superior 

 in size to gooseberry bushes, and in a state of abundant 

 fruitfulness. The more fanciful Dutch modes of train- 

 ing apple-trees in the cup and the ball fashion, and after 

 many other curious devices, have never been relished in 

 Britain. In this country they are generally allowed 

 to grow en huisson, that is, as bushes. For pears, the 

 French forms, en pyramide^ or pyramid shape (Fig. 4), 

 and en qirenouille, or distaff shaped (Fig. 5), are justly 

 gaining ground. 



Fig 4. Fig. 5. 



BRARY. 



Dioisioii of Horkiculhire 



