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Great care is taken to preserve them in due subor- 

 dination to the leaders. The bearing shoots are 

 treated pretty much as they are in this country. In 

 the execution of the training, the operations above 

 described are more or less applied, according to the 

 intelligence of the cultivator. 



2. The next form which we shall notice, and which 

 is at least ingenious, is that termed by Count Lelieur 

 the form a la Bumoutier, from the name of its in- 

 ventor. It is stated to be an improvement of the V 

 of Montreuil, and to be distinguished from it and 

 all others, in being less divaricated, — in having its 

 principal members more strongly marked, — and by 

 the entire renovation of the bearing shoots every year, 

 which, being cut down almost to their insertion, give 

 a pinnated appearance to the branches. The follow- 

 ing account is gathered from the ^Tomone Francaise," 

 a work of considerable merit, although it patronizes 

 one mode of operation exclusively, and passes over all 

 others in silence. As is commonly practised, the 

 stock (of almond, or plum) is planted where the tree 

 is destined to grow, and in the following summer two 

 buds, nearly opposite to each other, are inserted. 

 These produce two shoots, the future mother-branches, 

 which are trained (Fig. 2) nearly in a vertical posi- 

 tion, and ought to be as equal in strength as possible. 

 At the first pruning they are cut down to about 15 

 or 18 inches in length, and the buds, both before and 



