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trees are prepared with more or less care and thorougliness, 

 someAvhat after the mode prescribed for grape borders in house 

 cultiure, page 355. If you desire success, prepare them well. 

 There is an equity in the matter : yom- pay will be according 

 to yoiu' labor. 



Fig. 308. 



Fig. 309. 



Maiden tree cut back and set out for 

 fan training. 



Young fan-trained tree with its first year's 

 growtli of tliree slioota. 



The first step in training is to plant a tree of one year's 

 growth from the bud, technically called a " maiden tree," 

 against a wall or trellis, having first cut it back, if intended 

 to be fan-formed, to within one, or two, or three inches of the 

 point of junction with the stock. Fig. 308. 



In planting it, let it be set so that the head of the stock 

 where it was cut down after budding and the face of the new 

 cut made in cutting back the young tree may be toward the 

 wall, and the swell of the original bud gi-owth, with its nu- 

 merous undeveloped buds, be thrown outward to fm-nish shoots 

 to radiate from that point for training if it be cut very closely 

 back. 



The precise number of buds that are permitted to start the 

 first year may vary, but for illustration I have chosen three as 

 a sufiicient and convenient number (Fig. 309). 



These are to be laid carefully to their proper places as their 

 growth proceeds by nailing them by means of small bands of 

 cloth or leather placed around them, forming, when nailed, 



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