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TRAINING. 



1826. This tree, we are informed, still exists in Carleton Hall Gardens, 

 where it covers nearly eight hundred square feet of wall, and is universally 

 admired. It will be evident, we think, to every gardener, that this mode 

 of training is not so well adapted for low walls as for such as are high. For 

 high walls it is recommended to train the tree in form of the fig. 294, till it 

 reaches the top of the wall, and afterwards to change the position of the 

 shoots in the manner shown in fig. 295, encouraging the shoots produced 



Fig. 295. Seymour'' s fan-training, suited to a lotv wall. 



from «, a, to throw out branches to fill the centre of the tree. i^Ihid. vol. vi. 

 p. 437.) There can be no doubt that this is a very systematic and beautiful 

 mode of training, but being more difficult than the common fan mode, it 

 has not been generally adopted by gardeners. Its perfect symmetry ought 

 strongly to recommend it to the amateur of leisure. 



803. Fan-training in the wavy or curvilinear manner. — This mode of 

 training was first described and its advantages pointed out by Mr. Hayward, 

 in his Science of Horticulture, published in 1822 ; but it had been in practice 

 to a certain extent long before, which shows its foundation in nature. Mr. 

 Callow, to whom the idea was suggested by the lower branches of some large 

 elms, which, though they projected ever so far horizontally, still had their 

 extremities inclined upwards, practised it with the peach and nectarine 

 nearly half a century ago. {Gard. Mag., 1834, p. 88.) This mode of training, 

 which we shall describe from Mr. Hayward's very scientific work, is 

 founded on the fact, that the sap will always flow in the greatest quan- 

 tity to the most vertical buds ; so that a branch bent like an inverted 

 syphon, however low the centre may be, yet if the extreme point be turned 

 upwards, the buds there will produce vigorous upright shoots, however 



distant they may be from 

 the main stem. If a ? V a 



branch be fixed in a ver- '■'^'^**==5=-a-5£^^ 

 tical position, the strong- — -<==:i>J 



est shoot will be pro- Fig. 297. Illustrative of 

 duced at the point bud a, ^avy-training. 



in fig. 296, as it will also if the shoot should 



Fig. 296. Illustrating the principles of ^ , ^^^^^ ^ ^ 



wavy-traimng. > 



