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largely benefited by single diagonal training as the 

 apricot. Every gardener knows the wretched dis- 

 appointment often felt in summer by large and ap- 

 parently healthy branches of their apricot trees dying 

 off suddenly, and leaving them without any remedy — 

 for the gap made cannot be filled, owing to the rigidity 

 of the remaiaiag branches. There is, therefore, no 



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remedy for this failure of apricot trees when trained]]to 

 walls in the usual manner ; but there is a sure method 

 of avoiding it — simple enough : it is by planting single 

 diagonal cordon trees, which may be maiden trees with 

 a single stem, or trees in a bearing state from the 

 nursery. In planting, if the tree is slender, it is usual 

 to keep the stem of the stock as nearly upright as 



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