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TRAINING. 
Fig. 18. Fan-training, first 
stage. 
The two best inodes of training for this country, on walls or 
espaliers, are fan-training, and horizontal training. The first 
is the simplest and easiest mode of training the Peach, the Apri- 
cot, Nectarine, and Cherry ; and the latter is best adapted to 
the Pear. In training to a wall, the branches are fastened in 
their places by shreds of leather and nails ; and, as espaliers, 
by tying them with slips of bass-matting to the rails of the trellis. 
The following account of these two modes of training is so con- 
cisely abridged from the practice of the best English gardens, 
in the Suburban Horticulturist, that we cannot do better than 
to place it before the reader. 
Fan-training in the common English manner. A maiden plant 
(a tree but one year from the graft,) being planted “ is to be 
headed down to four buds or eyes, 
placed in such a manner as to throw 
out two shoots on each side, as shown 
in Fig. 18. The following season the 
two uppermost shoots are to be headed 
down to three eyes, placed in such a 
manner as to throw out one leading shoot, and one shoot on each 
side ; the two lowermost shoots are to be headed down to two 
eyes, so as to throw out one lead- 
ing shoot, and one shoot on the 
uppermost side as shown in Fig. 
19. We have now five leading 
shoots on each side, well placed, 
to form our future tree. Each 
of these shoots must be placed in 
the exact position in which it is 
to remain ; and as it is these Fig. 19. Fan-training , second stage. 
shoots which are to form the future tree,* none of them are to be 
shortened. The tree should by no means be suffered to bear 
any fruit this year. Each shoot must now be allowed to pro- 
duce, besides the leading shoot at its extremity, two other shoots 
on the uppermost side, one near to the bottom and one about 
midway up the stem ; 
there must also be one 
shoot on the under- 
most side, placed 
about midway be- 
tween the other two. 
All the other shoots 
must be pinched off 
in their infant state. 
The tree will then, 
assume, at the end ofthe third year, the appearance shown in Fig.20. 
From this time it may be allowed to bear what crop of fruit the gar- 
dener thinks it able to carry ; in determining which, he ought 
