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cold. In such a case a stronger eye is chosen lower down 

 to make the desired prolongation. 



" As in the case of other forms of training, the branches 

 of the Peach cordons are allowed to grow in a more erect 

 position at first than they are finally intended to occupy. 

 I should advise this cordon form to be adopted in the case 

 of gardens whose walls are on the incline, as often occurs 

 in certain localities, and for soil of inferior quality where 

 the Peach tree grows slowly, because under such circum- 

 stances it never attains its full development. The plan 

 does not answer where the ground is flat and the conditions 

 are such as favour the rapid growth of the tree." 



Some fruit growers think that there is no * ra ', 16 , 8- 

 occasion for resorting to this simple cordon in 

 the case of the Peach, any more than in the case 

 of the Pear. My friend M. P. Jamin, of Bourg- 

 la-Reine, plants in his fruit garden a form of 

 tree with three vertical branches, and if he wants 

 a great variety of fruit from a small space, works 

 a different variety on each branch. This figure 

 shows, on a small scale, the appearance of one of 

 his young specimens, trained on this principle. w ith three 

 The U and double U forms, described in the Chap- J tems > a dif - 



. . ierent va- 



ter on Montreuil, are also extensively adopted in riety being 

 preference to the oblique cordon by many & ia ^ ecl on 

 growers. 



The short pinching System applied to the Peach. — 

 The system generally known among us as that of M. Grin is 

 confounded by some writers with the cordon system, from 

 which it is entirely distinct. It has not in the least in- 

 fluenced the old way of growing the Peach in France, and 

 a commission of first-rate fruit growers sent to examine it, 

 reported that the system pursued at Montreuil is still much 

 the best. It may be shortly described as an attempt to do 

 away with nailing by a system of close pinching, and that 

 alone is sufficient to condemn it for our gardens, and also 

 for those of the French, for the wood to be well ripened 

 must be nailed in, and the pinching required to keep the 

 shoots from running away from the wall is something pro- 



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