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THE FRUIT GARDEN. 



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rieties, the vertical, with screw or wavy shoots, No. 1 ; and 

 the vertical, with double stem, or upright shoots. No. 2, 



These two last modes of training are sometimes adopted with 

 pears and apples, and commences the same season that the 

 trees are planted, by leading one shoot horizontally from each 

 side of the stem, within a foot or fifteen inches of the ground- 

 surface, and the shoots which proceed from them are trained 

 upright till they reach the top of the wall, and are sometimes 

 trained straight, as in No. 2, and often in a serpentine form, as 

 in No. 1. These are favorite forms of training with Dutch 

 and Flemish gardeners, and appear to have been long prac- 

 tised by them. They are, with us, for the most part applied 

 to the training of currants upon walls, and not unfrequently to 

 vines grown in the open air. Whatever merits they may be 

 supposed to have, in regard to producing fruitfulness in the 

 trees, we confess that they, together with No. 6, appear to be 

 less elegant, as they are the farthest removed from the natural 

 habit of the trees. 



Mr. Knight, amongst others, has recommended, with all 

 that zeal and abihty for which that horticulturist is so emi- 

 nently distinguished, a mode of training, which he denominates 

 the open fan form, and which he proposes should commence 

 while the trees are in the nursery, and he considers its appli- 

 cation as referring to almost all fruit-trees. This open fan 

 mode of the President's does not materially differ from that 

 described by that eminent French horticulturist, the late Pro- 



No. 1 . 



A'o. 2. 



