256 TRAINING. 



The advantages of this style are, the branches are 

 allowed to run to a considerable length they are 

 supported against injury from wind the whole tree 

 is within easy reach, and occupies but little space on 

 the borders of a garden. 



Another plan is called (I quenouille^ i. e. like a dis- 

 taff. In this the stem is trained erect, and the 

 branches drooping ; spreading to a diameter of four 

 or five feet at the bottom, and tapering upwards into 

 the form of a cone. 



Fig. 61, 



A rank of trees trained in this manner have a very 

 dressy appearance, and as the branches do not over- 

 shade each other, is an advantage which the preceding 

 has not : both are equally convenient and suitable for 

 dwarf fruit-trees. 



The object of this training is merely to counteract 

 the aspiring and spreading tendencies of the trees, 



