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not be trained so handsomely on such, in the fan 

 manner, as on higher walls. 



Mr Knight, in his communication to the London 

 Horticultural Society, on a new method of training 

 fruit-trees, observes, " That when trees are by any 

 means deprived of the motion which their branches 

 naturally receive from the winds, the forms in which 

 they are trained operate more powerfully on their 

 permanent health and vigour, than is generally 

 imagined." In this sentiment I perfectly agree ; 

 and I may be allowed to add, that I have been en- 

 gaged in the training of fruit-trees these twenty- 

 iive years, and have trained them in a great variety 

 of forms. Some in the Dutch style, running out 

 two branches first, perfectly horizontal, right and 

 left, to the extent of three or four yards each way, 

 and from these training shoots perfectly upright, at 

 nine inches apart, to the top of the wall ; some 

 with screwed stems, and horizontal branches ; some 

 with upright stems and horizontal branches ; some 

 with steins six feet high, with pendant, upright, 

 and horizontal branches, so as to appear like a star ; 

 and others in the fan manner ; which last, I con- 

 fess, I prefer to all other methods of training wall- 

 trees. I have altered many from the above forms 

 to this, both on walls and espaliers. 



The distance at which the principal branches 

 should be laid in, is from nine to twelve inches, ac- 

 cording to the strength and nature of the tree, some 

 growing more gross, both in wood and leaves, than 

 others. Trees that have arrived at a full bearing 

 state, and have filled the spaces allotted to them, re- 

 quire nothing farther in respect to pruning, than to 



