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principle to the ordinary horizontally trained Pear tree. I do 

 not say that it is as good as it is graceful in appearance, be- 

 lieving as I do in simple easily-conducted forms, but as these 

 smaller arching branches may be established on kinds that 

 bear better on the young wood, or on trees with the branches 

 thinly placed, it may prove useful. The mode of formation 

 is so simple and so easily established that no further descrip- 

 tion is needed. However, I cannot say too often that the 

 simple and quickly-formed trees, described elsewhere, are as 

 excellent for walls as for trellises, combining as they do the 

 advantages claimed for the cordons with a not too con- 

 tracted, repressed development. 



"When the exact system of training described in this 

 chapter is well carried out, well furnished branches and 

 fruitful spurs are the rule. Should it not be so, the 

 growers frequently resort to grafting fruit-buds on the bare 

 spaces, as shown by the following figures : — 



Fig. 197. 



Fig. 199. 



Fig. 201. 



Fig. 198. 



Fig. 200. 



E. 



Grafting to furnish useless water shoots 

 ■with fruit buds. A, short lateral 

 fruit shoot ; C, incision to receive A ; 

 D, operation completed (this graft is 

 performed in August, the buds fruit- 

 ing the following year) ; B, terminal 

 fruit branch ; E, crown grafting of fruit- 

 ing shoots on gross unfruitful ones. 



