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parallel to the main stem; and from these lateral 

 shoots will spring, which may serve to fill all the 

 required space. Of free growers, the wood bears 

 most fruit when submitted to such tortuous course. 

 With regard to the other walls, it may be pro- 

 per to have on certain portions of them duplicates 

 of some of the trees which have been chosen for 

 the south exposure. This will be found conveni- 

 ent chiefly in the case of such fruits as keep no 

 time, but must be eaten quite ripe from the tree 

 as cherries, plums, and some pears. In the one 

 situation the crop will be finished when that on 

 the other begins to ripen; and thus the season of 

 fruit gathering is agreeably prolonged. The red 

 magnum ripens early, and has no need of a better 

 aspect than the east or west. Observe the shelter 

 as well as the sun. Perhaps the one wall may 

 have more of either than the other; and you have 

 only to choose the position according to the quality 

 of the fruit, for which choice the observations al- 

 ready given may be sufficient the rest is merely 

 filling up. And where this is the only object, you 

 may, for the sake of variety, and a little economy 

 of time in covering the wall, alternate the horizon- 

 tal with the fan-training. Apples and pears should 

 all be horizontal, in which mode of training they 

 assume the form of a pyramid; and as all the 

 stone fruits should be fan-trained, the latter admit 

 of spreading for a time over the space that is va- 

 cant towards the top of the pyramidal. 



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