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XVI. Description of a Method of Training Standard Apple 

 Trees. Bij Joseph Sabine, Esq. F. R. S. $c Secretary 



Read October 1, 1822. 



In a visit which I lately paid to the garden of Joseph 

 Brookhouse, Esq. at Warwick, I was much pleased with a 

 method of training Standard Apple Trees, which he has 

 lately adopted. Mr. Brookhouse has for many years amused 

 himself by practical attention to various branches of Horti- 

 culture, and his forced Grapes and Peaches are so excellent 

 that they may compete with those of the most distinguished 

 professional cultivators, without danger of suffering in the 

 comparison, either as to the qualities of the fruit or the ap- 

 pearance of the trees which produce it. 



The Apple trees alluded to are six feet high in the stems, 

 from the tops of which, the branches, which are of three or 

 four years growth, extend outwards, and nearly horizontally 

 in all directions, from five to six feet from the centre. Round 

 the tree, at about three feet from the stem, and at two feet 

 from the ground is placed a hoop, fastened to stakes, and 

 towards this hoop the ends of the branches are directed by 

 worsted cords fastened to their extremities, and to the hoop. 

 The branches, by this means, assume a curved direction, 

 straighter near to their origin in the centre, much arched 

 afterwards, and having their extremities turned inwards. 

 The average distance from the ground to the ends of the 



