training Peach Trees compared. 



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peaches on a tree are imperfect and vapid. Then, to enable 

 your readers to judge between us, will you ascertain and state 

 the produce of the tree trained after Mr. Seymour's mode in 

 the Chiswick Gardens ? I cannot be answerable for Mr. 

 Thomson's success in executing my plan of training with two 

 stems, which he was directed to establish in the Chiswick 

 Gardens ; but I am at all times ready to exhibit practical 

 demonstrations of the truth of my conclusions and represent- 

 ations in my garden here. My trees are of five years' training; 

 and having now one fourth more bearing wood than last year, 

 I have no fear of obtaining one fourth more fruit next year. 



In your Encyclopedia of Gardening you give my sketch of 

 training on one stem thus {Jig. 125.) : but take no other notice 



of it than calling it the 

 " wavy fan fashion." 

 As you made no ob- 

 servation whatever 

 on my principles of 

 training, you make it 

 appear that you con- 

 sider this form as the 

 mere indulgence of 

 fancy — a whim ; but 

 by this you discover 

 either your ignorance 

 or your contempt for 

 scientific knowledge : 

 and is this consistent 

 with your duty as the literary caterer for gardeners ? By no 

 other means than by this "wavy fan fashion" can the horizontal 

 leaders be trained to the fullest extent which the tree will cover, 

 in the same time ; and, at the same time, fill every part of 

 the space allowed it with bearing wood : for, according to 

 the law stated, that the sap will flow to the most vertical 

 buds, and there form the strongest branches, by turning up 



the ends of the horizontals, thus, f /, I make the extreme 



or point bud present the most vertical channel, and thus 

 obtain from it a strong branch, perhaps, of 3 ft. long ; and 

 then, by bringing this down to a precise horizontal, all but 

 6 in. or 8 in. at the end, I lengthen such horizontal 2 ft. or 

 more ; and, thus proceeding, carry it to any length. Then, 

 in what respect is this mode of training inferior to Mr. Sey- 

 mour's, or any other ? supposing one stem to be preferred 

 to two. I am, Sir, yours, &c. 



JRadipole, near Weymouth, Joseph Hayward, 



Sept. 4. 1832. 



