New Mode of training Fruit Trees. 539 



Art. VII. A new Mode of training Fruit Trees ; a new Mode of 

 grafting and inarching; and an improved Mode qf making Goose- 

 berry Wine and Cider, Sfc. By Mr. W. Green, Jun. 



Sir, 



Having seen in the Gardener's Magazine descriptions of 

 various methods of training wall trees, I take the liberty of 

 sending the description of what I call my method, as I have 

 never seen or heard of its having been employed by any 

 other person but myself, and I have used it for several years 

 with success, particularly on long low walls. 



Pear Trees. — Every one who has paid any attention to 

 training pear trees horizontally, must be aware of the length 

 of time required to fill a wall with shoots at equal distances ; 

 and that this can only be accomplished, according to the 

 usual method, by heading down the leader every year. This 

 operation does not always produce two lateral shoots, and it 

 is not only tedious, but it has also a tendency to make the 

 shoots already produced grow more rank than is desirable. 

 By my method this is avoided, and the Wall is much sooner 

 filled in height with shoots : it is as follows : — 



If the wall is under 20 ft. long, and it is intended to train a 

 pear tree against it, plant the tree at one end of the wall, and 

 then proceed as follows : — Let the situation of the tree be at 

 a, inj^g-. 88. : stick a nail in the wall at 6, and another nail at 



c, and strike a line on the wall from b to c ; then train all the 1 

 shoots to one side after the fan manner, and bend the whole 

 of the shoots into a horizontal position, as soon as they reach 

 the line that is drawn from b to c; after which continue to train 

 them horizontally. 



If the wall is from 30 to 40 ft. in length, plant the tree in 

 the middle of it, at d in Jig. 89, and proceed as follows : — 

 Stick a nail in the wall in the centre, near the top, at e ; stick 

 another nail at J", and another at g : then strike a line from 

 e tof, another line from e to g ; train the tree in the fan man- 

 ner, until the shoots reach the lines drawn upon the wall, 

 and then bend them horizontally. 



