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Peach, is the stock in ordinary use for that fruit and the Nec- 
tarine. The young plants are trained precisely in the same 
way as the Apricot, Pear, &c. ; with tlie exception of standard 
trees, as the Damson; the latter indeed being raised from suckers 
or from seed. We may therefore pass by the detail of training, 
for the sake of more important advice. 
In training on walls we advocate the tying down of the young 
shoots, annually and systematically, all over the tree; a mode 
of training which we have practised, with the utmost success, 
for the last twelve years, and which every year increases the 
value of the trees; if accompanied, we must add, by a peculiar 
mode of disbudding, which has been frequently set forth in these 
pages. We claim not to be the original inventors of this 
method, but the first to systematize it ; for, although partially 
adopted by others, no one evinced the courage to venture on it 
as a system, or to apply it generally to Plums, Apricots, and 
Pears. Indeed, it can but be matter of surprise that the system 
is so little appreciated by even very intelligent gardeners of tbe 
present day. 
The fabric of the future tree having been formed, and the 
trees placed in their final situations, whether for wall or espalier 
training, the ordinary means of pruning must be annually 
resorted to, in order to guide the young tree into a proper form; 
and if on a wall, to preserve a due equilibrium, in point of 
strength. To effect this, the usual stopping, disbudding. See., 
must be practised, in addition to the tying down of the young 
shoots, before alluded to : the shortest jointed annual shoots, 
are in this, as in all other cases, the most fruitful. 
The Plum, trained as an ordinary espalier or dwarf standard, 
has a particular tendency, in its earlier stages, to produce exces- 
sively luxuriant shoots ; more especially such as the Orleans, 
the Washington, the Magnum Bonum, and the Royale Hative. 
These must be stopped with the finger and thumb, when about 
a foot in length. This course will equalize the strength of the 
tree, and throw a greater amount of light amongst the embryo 
blossom buds of the ensuing spring. We may here observe, 
that means must at all times be taken to keep the aphides, 
and other insect enemies in check. To these the Plum family 
is particularly liable, during 3Iay and June. Some of the 
kinds are often attacked by the red spider; we have seen even 
