THE PEACH. 



185 



pear tree figured page 96, and those of the oblique 

 cordon,, page 108. 



True it is that the last advantage must be accom- 

 panied by an inconvenience in certain circumstances, 

 when, for example, the trees are in the palmetto or 

 other large form. In this case it will be necessary to 

 double the number of the principal branches. Now, as 

 in general we are only able to obtain one set of these 



Fig. 165— Being Fig. 164 deprived of the Buds. 



side branches in a year, it follows that the wood cannot 

 be made to cover completely the space it would occupy 

 by the former method until after a lapse of sixteen or 

 eighteen years, or half as long again. 



The medium duration of the peach is twenty years ; 

 this new mode of management, therefore, loses its most 

 important advantage in the case of large single peach 

 trees. The new mode is of the greatest value when 

 applied to peaches trained in vertical or oblique cordon. 

 The trees need only to be planted at from thirteen to 



