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of the shoot to beyond its extreme length, and the distance of the leading 

 shoots from one another is regulated by a semicircular line, at about ten feet 

 from the stem, as shown in fig. 292. On this line is marked oflf the distances 

 between the shoots, which are ten inches each. The lateral shoots are laid in 

 about a foot asunder, as at «, in this figure. In the third or fourth year, and 



Fig. 293. SeymouT^s fan-training, sixth year. 



sometimes in the second, instead of laying in all the side shoots at full 

 length, some of them are shortened, so as to get two leading shoots from 

 as many side shoots as may be necessary to fill the wall, as shown at 

 &, h. If the double side shoots thus produced are strong, they may be 

 laid in their whole length ; but if weak, they must be cut short to give 

 them strength. Occasionally a side shoot may be made to produce three 

 others, as at c ; so that there never can be any difficulty in producing a 

 sufficient number of leading shoots to furnish the wall. Fig. 293 is a por- 



Fig. 294. Seymour's fan-training, in progress for a low wall. 



trait of one-half of a Vanguard peach of six years' growth, taken in March, 



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