IIOIITU O/JLTTliAL TOUR. 



absolutely needed for furnishing the tree. He trains regu- 

 larly to the right and left ; but the weaker branches re- 

 ceive less inclination, or are placed more upright, than the 

 stronger ones, that this more favourable position may- 

 give them energy and bring them to an equality of vigour 

 with the stronger branches which are laid in horizon- 

 tally. At the first regular pruning or cutting-in, about a 

 year and a half after planting, the branches are reduced to 

 two on each side ; and at the next pruning, one branch is 

 removed on each side, leaving the tree to be formed only 

 of two principal branches, and these the most equally ba- 

 lanced as to general force and promise. If the first yearns 

 growth do not yield two sufficiently good leading branches, 

 they are sought from the growth of the second year ; the 

 best branch of the former year is now, with this view, 

 trained upright as a stem, and two leading branches or 

 arms are derived from it in the succeeding season. In subse- 

 quent years the pruning is conducted on similar principles. 

 It is a common rule, to leave two secondary arms, each of 

 nearly equal strength, and about two feet apart, on each side. 

 The subjoined outline of a tree, three years trained, is 

 taken from a sketch by Mozard himself. 



Here, it is to be remarked, only the principal and se- 

 condary branches, and a few branchlets, are represented ; 

 many twigs and annual shoots being left out. This is also the 

 with all the figures in Mozanfs book, which, although 



