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Like produces like in wood making and fruit growing, as in almost 
every tiling else. The trainer has 
only to show the tree what sort 
and form of wood it is expected 
to make, and Nature will speedily 
better his instructions. A mas¬ 
terly inactivity often represents 
the highest skill in the training of 
apple and other fruit trees. The 
foundation, again, of the pyra¬ 
midal apple tree is shown in Fig. 
19. This, again, is the much 
cited Fig. 11 stopped once, say, 
in the middle of June. The stop¬ 
page developes the lower buds, 
and prepares it for growing into 
Fig. 20 the following season. It 
will at once be obvious that the 
natural results of Fig. 20 are 
Fig, 21 and Fig. 22. The art of 
training, like that of building, 
largely consists in the laying of a — 
good foundation. This, well and Fis. 22. \ 
truly laid, becomes at once a basis and a guide, and the house or 
tree alike rises up or grows into 
proper form as a matter of course. 
The same principle 
of progressive deve¬ 
lopment is illustrated 
in Figs. 23, 24, 25, 
and 26. Stop Fig. 11 
near the top, and the 
rudiments of Fig. 23 
may be formed the 
first season. Starting 
with 23, it needs little 
skill in training to 
produce Fig. 24; and 
Fig. 25 and 26 grow 
out of these two 
almost as certainly 
and readily as twice 
Fig. 24. 
mm 
Fig. 23. 
two make four. It has been contended that apple trees of the style 
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