58 Memoirs of the Caledonian Horticultural Society. 



The common practice in France is to plant a stock of the 

 almond or plum where the future tree is destined to remain. In 

 the summer after planting, two buds, nearly opposite each other, 

 are inserted in the stock : these produce the future mother 

 branches, which are trained nearly in a vertical po- 

 sition (/g. 22.), and at the first pruning are cut 

 down to about fifteen or eighteen inches in 

 length, and the buds, both before and behind, 

 disbudded. The second year's growth produces 

 side branches, and at the end of the third sum- 

 mer these have laterals. (Jig. 23.) At the end 



■AV 25 i.L of nine years, the appearance of a tree 

 trained d la Dumoutier is not unlike 

 that of one of Seymour's trees, with 

 this difference, that the branches pro- 

 ceed from two separate arms, instead 

 of from a central trunk. It is proper 

 to observe, however, that the engraving 

 given in the Caledonian Memoirs {Jig. 24.) bears so little re- 

 lation to truth, that it cannot be considered of much use. It 



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is said to be taken " from a tree which in nine years covered 

 a space of wall forty-two feet long and eight feet high." If the 

 length of this figure (Jig. 24.) be taken at forty-two feet, its 

 height will be nearer twenty feet than eight feet. The tree 



described by Lelieur, drawn to a scale (as in Jig. 25.), assumes 

 a very different appearance from the representation given by 



