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Hayuoard's and Seymour's Modes of 



to those remaining, and they are extended proportionally." 

 Agreeably to the seventh rule, by placing his leaders on an 

 angle of about 45°, Mr. Seymour produces an equal division 

 of the sap ; and, conformably to the eighth rule, as he allows 

 no buds to produce shoots but those which grow on the upper 

 side, he produces bearers of luxuriant growth : but, inasmuch 

 as Mr. Seymour does not avail himself of the further advan- 

 tages permitted by the seventh rule, his plan is inferior to mine. 

 For instance, Mr. Seymour's plan is exhibited inj^-. 124.; 

 and my plan mjig. 123.: — 



124 



Then, by his plan, there must be two angular spaces left 

 under the first leaders, or tiers of branches, as marked a and 

 b, that are without fruit : and, as your practical men will most 

 likely say, " Talk as you will of principles: the proof of the 

 pudding is in the spending," let us see what is the difference 

 in the effect of those two methods of training. In the presence 

 of some gentlemen, I have, this morning, drawn a line, paral- 

 lel with the surface of the earth, as marked by the dotted lines 

 in the sketch (Jig. 123.), under the lower horizontals of a tree 

 in my garden ; and, raising a perpendicular line of 3 ft. from 

 the extreme end, have brought the line down to the centre (c); 

 thus forming two angles, as marked by a and b: the length of 

 the lower base of each triangle is 9 ft. ; and the full spread of 

 the tree 1 8 ft. In each of those angles I have more than one 

 hundred perfect peaches. Again, from the centre of the tree 

 (at c), I raise a perpendicular line of 5 ft. (the tree at present 

 producing no fruit above that height) : from the upper point of 

 this line I form an angle on each side, to a base of 3 ft., right 

 and left, from the centre, as marked by the dots. In this 

 angle (c) there are more than one hundred peaches; and, 

 within an angle formed between two trees, the same as in the 

 centre of one, I have upwards of one hundred peaches: so 

 that every part of the wall is equally covered. On the whole 

 tree, that has been trained for five years only, I have seven 

 hundred peaches ; and they were so thinned as that no two 

 peaches touched at the stoning ; they are, consequently, of a 

 uniform size : and by the means which I adopt to sustain or 

 feed my trees, each fruit is brought to maturity ; not twenty 



