THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



MAY, 1827. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. 



Art. I. Observations on the Management of the finer Sorts of 

 French Pears, especially those which are usually termed Shy 

 Bearers ; in the first Place stating Objections to the pre- 

 sent Modes of Training ,- and, in the second Place, pointing 

 out a Method by which the Wall may be filled much sooner 

 than by any Way in use at present, and likewise by which 

 much more Fruit may be obtained. By F. N. B. 



Although there are many fanciful ways of training pear 

 trees, the only plans that can be termed by any means gene- 

 ral, and that deserve to be mentioned, (the others being use- 

 less as well as fanciful,) are the Fan, the Horizontal, and a 

 plan described in the Memoirs of the Caledonian Horticul- 

 tural Society, vol. i. p. 84., combining both. (E. of G. fig. 386.) 

 To the fan, the objection on walls not exceeding twelve feet is 

 very great, but on walls of greater height, the evil, although 

 lessened, will by no means be obviated. Ey this mode of 

 training, the centre branches soon become very strong, and the 

 side ones proportionally weak ; consequently one fails to pro- 

 duce a good crop for want of sufficient nourishment, and the 

 other from having it superabundantly: the centre branches 

 soon reach the top of the wall, when they must be shortened ; 

 they then throw out such a profusion of luxuriant shoots, that 

 no flower buds can any longer be formed ; the crop from this 

 time, therefore, consists of a few small fruit on the side 

 branches. Some gardeners train in a few young shoots between 

 the old ones, which is an improvement ; but still the form of the 

 tree remaining the same, the principal objection is unremoved. 

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