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Art. XVII. Explanatory Remarks on Mr. Seymour's Mode 

 of training Peach Trees. By Mr. John Seymour, Gar- 

 dener to Miles Stapylton, Esq., Carleton Hall, Yorkshire. 



Sir, 



In your description of my mode of training peach trees 

 (Gard. Mag. vol. i. p. 130.) you have given a correct idea of 

 the first and second year's management ; and, at your request, 

 I shall now relate my practice from the third year till the wall 

 is filled. 



I may premise that, whatever be the merits or demerits of 

 my system, it is entirely my own. I have been engaged in 

 bringing it to perfection for upwards of thirty years, twenty 

 of which I have spent here, and it is very little more than a 

 year since I have got it to my mind. 



My method is truly systematical, as all the principal lead- 

 ing shoots are trained by a line stretched from the setting on, 

 or origin, of the shoot, to beyond its extreme length ; and 

 the distance of the leading shoots from one another, is regu- 

 lated by a semicircular line, at about ten feet from the stem 

 (Jig. 79.) ; the distances between the shoots of ten inches each, 



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are measured on this line in the same manner as if I were 

 going to draw a polygon. 



The shoots produced the first year after planting are, one 

 upright shoot and two side shoots. In the second spring the 



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