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On Training Fruit Trees. 
gave the ready and very easy means of training down- shoots from 
thera, either ])endant or oblique, as may be required, to fill up any 
blank space on the upper part of the wall ; and as the tree below re- 
quires the space, such shoots can be reduced, or cut cloie to the 
horizontal branches at discretion. See h, b, b. 
79 
It suggested itself to me about five years ago, to furnish all my 
walls with bearing wood from the top, instead of from the bottom, of 
the wall, as is the usual practice, for none of the young shoots, or 
other bearing wood, having an altitudinal inclination, the wall could 
be furnished more regularly with fructiferous wood than upon the 
old fan or horizontal forms of ti'aining. If too much luxuriance is 
contemplated it is then readily checked, by permitting the superfluous 
sap to be thrown off at top, from the upper side of the horizontal 
limbs that are trained under the coping, {cccc fig. 80) which they 
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will always be disposed to do, especially when the tree has once 
occupied all tlie space allotted for it to extend on ; and such shoots 
can be cut out in the months of July or August, or not till the autumn, 
if it may be considered judicious to retain them till that time, for 
canying off the extra juices, so as to check any over-luxuriance that 
may be considered probable to endanger a premature bursting of the 
fruit buds. 
Such a method of training as shown by the foregoing figure, (80) 
is clearly much more fructiferous than the old fan or horizontal forms, 
for wall trees, of the spur-beaiing kinds. It is undoubtedly far more 
scientific, and at the same time much more economical than the 
method we too frequently see adopted, of covering the one side of a 
wall to furnish the other, by bringing the branches over the top of the 
wall, and then hanging them doAvnwarde on the opposite side ; but by 
