64 CORDON TRAINING. 



CHAP. IX. 



HORIZONTAL CORDONS. 



UNDER this head, for practical purposes in Cordon 

 training, may be ranged all fan-shaped or " pal- 

 mette " trees on walls ; all standard out of doors ; 

 and bush trees in pots. Every one knows how 

 to commence the training of these, how twelve 

 inches are to be left above the soil, and how fan- 

 shaped trees are to be thence carried out. In the 

 case of wall trees, light rods should always guide 

 the young branches, and these should never be 

 brought toward the horizontal line, till well esta- 

 blished, otherwise, adieu to the symmetry of the 

 tree, the lowest stage being too short. But if 

 these trees are trained horizontally, then let the 

 branches be depressed year by year from an angle 

 of 75 to 65 degrees, then 45, and lastly to about 

 30 degrees. Any approach to the perfect hori- 

 zontal line is useless, except in the case of two 

 small branches developed from the lowest stage 

 to fill up the lower corners. The Cordon system 

 is equally applicable here, i.e. that part of it 



