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FRUIT TREES. 



apply this method, in 1852, and gave it the present 

 name oi oblique cordon (fig. 98). The following is the 

 way to proceed : — 



Choose healthy and yigorous young trees of one 

 year's grafting, carrying only one stem. Plant them 



Fig. 99.— Cordon, First Year. Fig. 100.— Cordon, Second Year. 



16 inches apart, and incKne them one over the other at 

 an angle of 60 degrees. Cut off about a third of the 

 length at A (fig. 99), just above a front fruit-bud. 



During the following summer favour as much as 

 possible the development of the terminal shoot ; all 

 the others must be transformed into fruit-branches by 

 the same means as described for pyramidal trees. By 

 spring of the following year each of the young trees 

 will present the aspect of figure 100. 



