Chap. XVIII.] 



THE PEACH AS A COEDON. 



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the Pear. The following is a description of the mode of forming 

 it after M. Lepere : — 



" There are two modes of growing this form, 

 recommended by a professor of arboriculture, 

 put in practice by many amateurs, but which I 

 consists in planting the trees just as they 

 nursery, and training them at once in the oblique form. The 

 inconvenience arising from this method consists in being obliged 



One, which was 

 and frequently 

 consider faulty, 

 come from the 



Young Peach-tree trained as an Oblique 

 Cordon, isi year. A shows the fii-st 

 prunifts. 



Peach-tree trained as an Oblique Cordon, 

 ind year^ s pruning. The leading shaot is cut 

 at A J and the side-shoots at the cross-ttiarks. 



to place the tree close to the wall, which crowds the roots too 

 much, preventing them from affording sufficient nourishment to 

 the tree. Besides this, on account of the inclination of the tree, 

 part of the roots are directed towards the surface of the earth or 

 placed in an unnatural position, thereby preventing their full 

 development. By-and-by, the trees that have been planted thus 

 are cut to half the length that they were when they came from 

 the nursery, having a number of weak, useless branches on the 

 lower part, a condition which, as every one knows, is always un- 



