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PRODUCTION 



Sect. XV. 2. 2. 



ft occur greater difficulty, I fuppofe, In the produdion of the new 

 dexes, neceflary for the embryon progeny of buds, upwards or ho- 



iral habits. 



Uy along the bended branch contrary to th 

 as well as from the compreffion of the bark beneath th 

 of the branch, and its extenfion above it ; whence more flower-fh 

 produced, which do not require new caudexes to pafs aloncr 



bended branch 



but which permit their progeny, the feed 



pon the earth, and penetrate it with th 



the 

 fall 



In Lord Stafford's gardens at Trentham I remember to have feen 



many years ago 



fome ftandard dwarf 



ppl 



w 



h all their 



branches bent down, and fixed on a flight frame-woi k about a foot 



from th 



£) 



nd 



hich feemed to be uncommonly prolific 



as a 



circle of white and purple flowers twenty feet in diameter on branch 

 radiated from a center, appeared to a dif^ant eye like a lunar halo, 

 a carpet -of rich embroidery. 



The greater produdlion of fruit-buds on branches bended to tl 



horizon mufl contribut 



I (hould fuppof< 



th 



prolific efFet5t of 



o 



nedarine and peach-trees on tiles laid on the oround 



the gentle declivity of a bank of earth facing the fouth, which has 

 lately been recommended by fome one, v^^hofe name I do not recoi- 



led, who gained a patent for his difcovery 



And it is indeed proba^ 



ble, that both thefe modes of training fruit-trees, one of which may 



and the other an horizontal efp 



be called an horizontal 



would repay the labour of the horticultor j as they would be 



in fummer, which might more cer 



pofed to a more vertical fu 



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tainly ripen their fruit ; and would be kept fomewhat backwarder 

 the early fpring, by the greater obliquity of the fun-beams, and might 

 be therefore lefs liable to injury from the vernal fro ft ; and when in 

 blofTom might eafily be covered 

 mats th 



the night 



them 



when neceffary, by 

 them fupported by ftakes with horizontal poles 



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2. Secondly. T/je iwijmg a wire, or tying a waxed firings round 



the 



