By the Right Hon. William Wickham. 



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Additional Remarks. 

 Note A. 



It is not supposed, that these memoranda contain any 

 thing positively new. All the detached parts of the system, 

 here explained, are known, and may be found partly in books, 

 partly in actual practice, as well in the northern parts of 

 France, and in Holland, as in Great Britain. It does not 

 appear, however, that any general, and at the same time, 

 practical view of the subject, with reference to the particular 

 mode of bearing of the Fig tree, has hitherto been pub- 

 lished. 



Note B. 



This example has been chosen, as of a form of tree, the 

 most difficult to bring at once to a better system of pruning 

 and training. It will be easy to apply the principles, here 

 stated, to any tree less injudiciously trained and pruned; 

 and still more so to young trees, with their heads not yet 

 formed, remembering always, that in trees, planted in corners, 

 the branches must be trained vertically, and the shoots ho- 

 rizontally : on the contrary, where a large space of wall is 

 allotted to a single tree, the branches must be trained hori- 

 zontally, and the shoots vertically. It is, of course, not in- 

 tended to use these words in their strict sense, but only to 

 say, that the shoots and branches respectively, must in the 

 one case approach to a vertical, in the other to a horizontal 

 direction. 



Note C. 



The foreright shoots are sometimes pruned short, in the 



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