IS8 FRUIT CULTURE UNDER GLASS. 



doubled on the two side branches first laid in, as a new 

 lateral is sure to spring from the base of the one laid 

 in the previous season, as well as one from its point. 

 As to winter pruning in the fourth year, all the laterals 

 of two years' growth, and which have already produced 

 a crop of fruit, are to be removed entirely, and those of 

 the previous summer's formation are to be unfastened 

 from the wall and laid upon the main leading side 

 branches in the place of those cut out."* 



My objection to this otherwise neat and very 

 systematic mode of training is, in the first place, 

 that it takes a much longer time to cover a given 

 space of trellis or waU than it requires to do so 

 on the fan system, when the needless and objection- 

 able close-cutting-back system is not adhered to. 

 Then, again, when any of the leading branches give 

 way — no uncommon thing in peach-trees — a great 

 gap in the tree is created, which it takes longer to 

 make up than when a gap takes place in fan training. 



The time for pruning the peach under glass must 

 be regulated by the time that forcing is commenced. 

 Generally speaking it is best to defer pruning tUl the 

 first signs of the swelling of the buds, especially in the 

 case of the inexperienced, as then wood-buds and fruit- 

 buds are easily distinguished. This of course refers to 

 the shortening back of all young wood that requires it. 



DISBUDDING, OR SUMMER PRUNING. 



What is known by the term disbudding the peach, 

 consists of the removal of all the buds while in a small 

 state that are not required to grow into shoots, to 



* Book of the Garden. 



