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produce virtually the same result, & are more decorative to look at. 



Article V I. On the First Training, & on Shelters. 



ONCE THE TREE is pruned, it's trained, i.e. its branches are fastened to a wall with 

 loquettes [Translator 's note: see p. 0100] in a proper orientation or on a trellis with small 

 osiers that are green or that have been soaked in water to make them supple & pliant. 



1°. The branches should be equally spaced so that the tree is uniformly filled out 

 everywhere & not crowded in one place & vacant in another. 



2°. They should incline to the sides & not be arranged like the slats of a fan or the 

 spokes of a wheel. That way the lower part is kept full & the top doesn't get too 

 overgrown. 



3°. The branches never should cross or overlap one another unless there are gaps 

 that can't be filled in or prevented any other way. 



4°. Is it necessary to warn that a band that's fastened too tightly causes swellings, 

 thickenings, & other deformities on a branch, and sometimes even gummosis, on trees 

 that are tied that way? that passing an osier across a bud must be avoided? that if the tip 

 of a branch can't reach as far as a lath on the trellis, one should be supplied, either by 

 means of a rod attached to the trellis, or by putting a handle or a ring onto one end of an 

 osier through which the tip of the branch is passed & attaching the other end to the trellis 

 so that the branch is properly fastened? to orient toward the top of the trellis those 

 branches whose tips are pointing to the wall? to correct the curves & false contours of 

 branches with such defects or to prevent their tendency to develop them? In a word, to 

 carry out the training with all the neatness 



