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Mode of replacing Branches 



fine trees, covering a wall, and trained horizontally. But they 

 were not planted when young, and trained progressively in 

 order to produce this regularity. On the contrary, they were 

 planted when large and irregularly grown, having in some 

 places a redundancy, in others a deficiency, of branches. 

 Various means are frequently resorted to with the view of 

 supplying branches where wanting, such as notching, bud- 

 ding, or side-grafting the stem ; but here the desiderata were 

 obtained by inarching the growing extremities of adjoining 

 shoots to the parts of the stem whence the horizontals should 

 proceed. 



Supposing the branches of a tree are trained horizontally a 

 foot apart, with the exception of some where the buds in- 

 tended to produce branches did not break, as is often the 



Fig. 39. Mode of replacing Branches on Espalier Trees. 



case ; then a shoot, a, is trained up, and, when growing in 

 summer, a small slice is taken off near its extremity, and a 

 corresponding extent of surface immediately below the inner 

 bark of the stem is exposed ; the two are joined together, and 

 the point of the shoot « is inclined in the direction to form 

 the branch c. The most remarkable feature in the trees at 

 Corbeil was the uniformity of vigor in the respective branches. 

 It appeared as if the supplied branches, ccc, had been allowed 

 to grow in connection both with the stem at h b, and the branch 

 from which they originated at a a a, till their length and thick- 

 ness corresponded sufficiently with that of the branches above 



