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HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 
May l.sif, 18:3-2. 
PART I. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
HORTICULTURE. 
Article I. — On Training Peach, Nectarine, and other 
Fruit Trees. By Mr. John Mearns, Palace Gardens, 
Wells. 
I MUST premise that it is rarely we see a Peach- wall, of the usual 
height, completely furnished with bearing wood on all its parts along 
the top; whence it suggested itself to me that it would be of great 
advantage to plant and to train up riders, as T may technically term 
them, at suitable equi-dlstances along the wall, till the stems of them 
should reach nearly to the coping, and afterwards to train a shoot 
only, each way, in a horizontal position, so that each tree might have 
the form of a T, and so continue the training of them till they meet 
those of others trained in a similar manner; and as they extend pro- 
gressively, to encourage judiciously their fruit-bearing spurs. If 
choice Pears, Apples, Plums, Cherries, Apricots, or even the Peach, 
(which will produce an abundance of fruit spurs) were thus judiciously 
encouraged, a large supply of the finest and the best protected fruit 
would be obtained, at little trouble, and but a very trifling expense, 
upon a portion of walling too, which would be mostly useless, but for 
the adoption of this method. 
I had a long Peach-wall, as well as others, in training, with trees 
in the manner described ; and the experience of five years, oa hori- 
zontals, (a a fig. 79) have proved to my entire satisfaction the impor- 
tance of this system, and emboldens me to offer it for publication in 
the columns of your Register. 
It answers at the same time another most important purpose, and 
which I contemplated at the first suggestion of the plan, viz., it 
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