47 THE PEACH. 



thorough pruning and full exposure adopted in the manage- 

 ment of the trees. Figs. 624, 625, and 626 exhibit the fan 

 training usually adopted in espalier and wall training, in its 

 successive stages. The limits of this work do not admit full 

 directions, but the following general rules may be observed 

 as a guide and will apply to all other annual pruning of the 

 peach: i. The fruit being borne on the shoots of the preced- 

 ing year, a good supply of annual bearing-shoots must be 

 kept on all parts of the tree. 2. As the shoots, left unpruned, 

 extend yearly in length, and become bare on the sides, it is 

 necessary to cut them back, in order to keep up a supply of 

 new shoots from their base. 3. Rub off or cut out all the 



FIG. 624. FIG. 625. FIG. 626. 



Fan Training of Peach-Trees. 



shoots which spring up from the bases of shoots thus cut back, 

 leaving only a few strong ones at regular distances, so as 

 to admit sun and air to the leaves, which distance may be 

 usually about six inches. 



RAISING PEACHES IN POTS. 



Peaches are raised in pots to secure uniform crops every 

 year in an uncertain climate, to test new sorts, to produce 

 early bearing, and to obtain a supply of peaches where the 

 grounds are too small for planting an orchard. Two modes 

 are adopted one without fire heat, the crop maturing a little 

 earlier than in common orchards; the other, where, by the 

 use of fire heat, the fruit is obtained two or three months 

 earlier than in open ground. 



Among those who have most successfully adopted the first- 

 named mode are Ellwanger & Barry, of Rochester. P. 

 Barry has furnished the following statement of their manage- 

 ment, written when the trees were three years of age and in 

 successful bearing: 



