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want of attention to this circumstance. It requires no argu- 

 ments to support a practice so evidently natural, and uni- 

 formly attended with such good effects whenever it has been 

 tried ; and as it can never do harm, every gardener ought to 

 adopt it*. Great advantage may be taken of the same prin- 

 ciple in training other trees; whenever the sap is constrained 

 by twisting a shoot or branch, it is sure at those places most 

 bent, or at the most angular parts of each curve, to send out 

 a shoot. This was taken advantage of, and is excellently 

 illustrated, by Mr. Hitt in his Treatise on Fruit Trees; and 

 had this and several other old treatises not been too much 

 neglected, the late Mr. Forsyth's would not have been rendered 

 necessary. 



In training trees, few gardeners understand or avail them- 

 selves of the advantages which might be taken from this gene- 

 ral law in the vegetable economy, that the extreme branches 

 bent downward, or the extreme roots turned upward and ex- 

 posed to the air, throw the tree more or less into fruit. I have 

 lately seen it done in two instances by accident, where the ef- 

 fect was astonishing. The first was at Tynningham, where 

 some pear-trees which never bore well, but grew vigorously, at- 



See Forsyth's Treatise on Fruit Trees, 



