106 THE MODERN PEACH PRUNER. 



from a resemblance to a thick cord or cable. This 

 term applies to trees in any form. Fan-shaped 

 trees may be called horizontal cordons. Those 

 planted closely together and trained at an angle of 

 45°, are styled oblique or diagonal cordons. Trees 

 with any number of upright leaders are vertical 

 cordons, while those winding gracefully round 

 wires, or posts, are spiral cordons. All these are 

 formed by the mode of close summer-stopping of 

 the shoots. For trees under glass no better or 

 more simple plan can be imagined, and our object 

 is now to show that there exist no difficulties in 

 the way of a similar treatment of trees in the open 

 air. The advantages of this method are great. In 

 the first place there is a total suppression of the 

 summer and winter tying-in of the shoots. This 

 alone constitutes an appreciable gain, especially 

 during a period when we have so many claims on 

 our time. Again, the shoots being closer-lying, 

 they require less space between the leading branches, 

 and thus there can be more of these. 



Systematic summer-stopping of the shoots affects 

 the two-year-old wood more than any other style, 

 and tends to produce and maintain, in the case of 

 the Peach, those valuable fruit-bearing spurs, which 

 produce the finest fruit, and last several seasons 

 without much change. In this way we greatly 

 multiply our chances of a good crop, for if one 



