'i'HE 
HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 
October 1st, 1832. 
PART I. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
HORTICULTURE. 
ARTICLE I.— ON TRAINING FRUIT TREES. 
By A JOURNEYMAN GARDENER. 
It is astonisLing how deficient most practical men of our jn'ofession 
are in the art of training trees. We see in ahnost everv garden, 
trees trained upon the old world fashion, that of laving in a twig 
wherever there is an inch of brick to be seen, without any rule or 
principle, which is certainly a great stigma upon the profession, 
"i^oung practitioners as well as old are in the same fault, and not- 
withstanding the present rapid march of intellect, they go on in the 
same way as their fathers did in past ages. Considering a garden 
as a place of pleasure to amuse and deUght, the enjoyments derived 
from it must be according to its taste and state of keeping. Now 
as the walls form one of the principle objects in a garden, so the 
trees upon them shonld be in a good system of training, as the 
beauty of the whole garden depends upon them in a gi'eat measure. 
Handsome trees, I admit, would be a poor recompence, if they could 
only be obtained at the expense of the benefits which ought to be 
derived from the w-all, the purpose for which it was erected. But 
when it can by experience be shown, that the gi'eatest crops are in 
general those obtained from trees possessing the gi-eatest symmetry 
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