CULINARY GARDENING, 



BOOK 1* 



tained the top of the wall, and were turned down upon the 

 other side. This has been done two or three years, and every 

 year those branches so turned down have borne immense quan- 

 tities of fruit, and the other parts of the tree have begun to bear 

 better. Were every other branch turned downward in this 

 manner, either by bringing them over to the other side of the 

 wall, or turning them downward upon the same side, the whole 

 tree would soon become fruitful. The second instance was at 

 Palatine House, where vines were grown in a pit, and trained 

 from the top of the back wall, under the sloping rafters, to the 

 lowest part of the front glass, and uniformly produced extra- 

 ordinary crops of grapes, with a less than usual quantity of 

 shoots. The good effects arising from the same principle may 

 be seen in most gardens in a greater or less degree, at the cor- 

 ners of walls or espaliers, or around doors or other openings. 

 Where trees are trained upon houses, it may be very frequently 

 seen; the bends and twists, and downward training of the 

 shoots, occasioned by the doors and windows, chimnies and' 

 projections, always producing this effect; and hence we often 

 find trees in these situations afford more fruit than those in gar- 

 dens. The excellent effects of cutting the roots of trees either 

 at some distance or near the chief stem, and also the effects of 

 cutting the stem itself, in order to throw them into fruit, have 

 been fully recorded by former writers on horticulture, and have 



