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FRUIT GARDEN. 



downwards as below h. This last- is an excellent me- 

 thod of reclaiming neglected trees of this description. 

 Every alternate branch being taken away, and the spurs 

 cut off, the young shoots are trained in, and . soon pro- 

 duce good fruit. It is rather singuh,T, that the late M. 

 Thouin, in his account of the Ecole cVITorticulture 

 practique du Museum^ classes the horizontal form among 

 les tallies lieteroclites^ and says, that, in consequence of 

 its invariably producing' a tete de saule, that is, a hedge 

 of young shoots at the' top, it has been long since aban- 

 doned. From this remark, we cannot help drawing the 

 conclusion, that in France, th.e theory of training must 

 be in advance of the practice. 



The other principal form is called /aw-training. In 

 this there is no .leading stem, and the branches are ar- 

 ranged somewhat like the spokes of a fan. Fig. 8 re- 

 presents this shape as it commonly occurs in gardens. 

 In the case of apple and pear-trees, this mode, though 

 frequently adopted, is not superior, perhaps not even 



Fig. 8. 



equal, to the horizontal configijrafion : it is evident, 

 that when the branches reach the top of the wall, where 



