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and applied in this form, yet we often see a modified 

 form, and with good results. 



The allusion by Professor Lindley to the suggestions 

 in " The Horticultural Transactions " has reference to a 

 mode of training fruit-trees described by M. Noisette of 

 France, and introduced in England by George H. Noch- 

 den, LL.D. It consists in the simple training of fruit- 

 branches upon a horizontal trellis ; one form, for example, 

 being circular, like a centre-table, the tree-trunk being the 

 centre pillar of the table. The supposed advantage of 

 this form is so well stated by Mr. Nochden, that I give it 

 in his own words : 



"The essential point is to lay the branches in a 

 horizontal position ; for, by training them in this way, 

 the current of sap is forced to assume a direction in 

 which it cannot move with the same quickness as it 

 would in its natural channel, which is from . the root 

 straight upwards: and the diversion favors the process 

 of forming fruit, by inducing, as has been elsewhere inti- 

 mated, a slower motion of the sap, and thus affording 

 time for the secretion and deposition of the particles." 



M. Noisette designed his mode especially for the peach, 

 the apricot, and other fruit-trees ; but it must be obvious 

 that these stiff and naturally upright fruiting-trees are by 



