ON TRAINING FRUIT TREES. 
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If they grow too luxuriantly, they can easily be stopped, by al- 
lowing a superabundant crop of fruit to remain, which is the best 
method of checking them. Under Mr. Meams's system, the trees 
will soon be worn out, whereas, if trained after the eliptical method, 
with judicious cutting and nailing, they may be made to possess 
the same form, and T have no hesitation in saying, to flourish for 
half a century. Mr. Meams will find a great difficulty in getting 
his stocks to the top of the wall, if it be one twelve feet high, and I 
think such stocks would look very unsightly, then the same objec- 
tions may be made to those trained with riders. I do not think re- 
verse training upon walls will ever be attended with any advantage, 
although it might be recommended for fruit trees upon the open 
border, with sticks bent in the ground, or trained horizontally upon 
low wooden lattice work. I likewise send you a sketch of a pear 
tree, (Fig. 118,) trained in the usual horizontal manner. 
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With shoots laid in alongside of the old ones, its advantage is, 
that it keeps the tree in bearing from the stock to the extremity ; it 
is an excellent plan for these sorts, which will bear upon the extrem- 
ities alone. The young shoot in course of time, take the place of 
their predecessors, and other shoots are again brought along them, 
so keeping the trees in a healthy bearing state. 
A Journeyman Gardener. 
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