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TRAINING. 



shoots already produced grow more rank than is desirable : by the following 

 method practised by Mr. Green of Stepney, this inconvenience is avoided, 

 and the wall is much sooner filled in height with shoots :— Suppose the wall 

 to be under twenty feet long, and that it is intended to train a pear-tree 



Fig. 312. Horizontal training and fan-training combined. 



against it ; plant the tree at one end of the wall, and then proceed as follows : 

 Let the situation of the tree be at a, in fig. 31 2 ; stick a nail in the wall at &, 



Fig. 313. Horizontal and fan-training combined. 



and another nail at c, and strike a line on the wall from 6 to c ; then train 



all the shoots to one side after the fan man- 

 ner, and bend the whole of the shoots into a 

 horizontal position, as soon as they reach the 

 line that is drawn from b to c ; after which 

 continue to train them horizontally. If the 

 wall is from thirty to forty feet in length, 

 plant the tree in the middle of it as at d, in fig. 

 313, and proceed as follows : — Stick a nail in 

 the wall in the centre, near the top, at e; 

 stick another nail at /, and another at g; 

 then strike a line from e to /, another line 

 from eto g ; train the tree in the fan manner 

 until the shoots reach the lines drawn upon 

 the wall, and then bend them hori- 

 zontally. If the wall is higher 

 than it is wide, proceed as follows : 

 — Plant the tree in the middle of 

 the wall at in fig. 314 ; stick one 

 nail at one at k, and one at / / 

 strike the lines as before ; but, in- Yig.^^^f- 



Stead of spreading out the shoots /an training, 



horizontally, train them perpendi- 



Fig, 314. Horizontal and upright 

 training combined. 



