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seen such effects produced by it as to com- 

 mand my full approbation, yet there may 

 have been instances which I have not seen 

 where it may have succeeded ; but I believe 

 the trees cannot have been planted in such 

 a soil and climate, as that to which I have 

 been accustomed. The sorts of trees now 

 under observation have a natural tendency 

 to become luxuriant, and the training of 

 them in the fan method encourages it; be- 

 cause the natural direction of the sap is to 

 run up wards, and the more erect the branches 

 are, the more is luxuriency encouraged, con- 

 sequently the more unfruitful the trees. It 

 is very evident that to train those trees in 

 the fan way, whose habit is to produce 

 already too much wood, will tend to the 

 production of more, and that will be more 

 luxuriant. In order therefore to bring such 

 trees to a prolific condition, it is necessary 

 that some means be employed with that 

 express view. This may in most cases be 

 effected by training them in an horizontal 

 direction, for when the branches are in this 

 position it checks the too free motion of the 

 sap, and renders the tree productive of fruit; 

 because the sap cannot proceed so quick in 

 the branches, as when they are trained more 

 erect, and thus more time is afforded for the 

 application of the juices in the spurs and 

 buds, which are essential to fruitfulness. 

 Although trees trained in this manner 



