APPLES AND PEAKS AS LATEEAL COEDONS 87 



originally planted being removed to another plantation. 

 They may be safely moved at two or even three years 

 after planting, the removal being performed as early in 

 October as practicable. 



APPLES AND PEARS AS SINGLE AND 

 DOUBLE LATERAL GORDONS 



A TEEE grafted on the Paradise or Doucin stock, with a 

 single shoot, is planted in a sloping position, and the 

 shoot trained along a wire, about ten or twelve inches 

 from the surface. (Fig 16.) 



To carry out this method of training, oak posts, 

 about three inches in diameter and two feet in length, 



Fig. 16 



should be sharpened at one end and driven into the 

 ground, so that they stand one foot above the surface ; 

 they may be from thirty to forty yards distant from each 

 other. 



From these a piece of galvanised or common iron 

 wire — if the latter, it should be painted — about the 

 thickness of whipcord, should be strained and sup- 



