THE 
HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 
April 1st, 1833. 
PART I. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
HORTICULTURE. 
ARTICLE I.—ON TRAINING PEACHES AND NECTARINES. 
BY MR. HENRY DYSON. 
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I rejoice to see a continuation of remarks on training fruit trees on 
walls, occupying a portion of the Horticultural Register, I trust the 
advocates of the improved system, will continue to discuss the sub¬ 
ject until the tottering fabric of the old fan system is universally ex¬ 
ploded, together w r ith its confused heterogeneous mass of unnecessary 
branches, pinching the fruit of their needful supply of nourishment; 
causing many to sicken, and fall, before they arrive at the period of 
stoning ; and those which remain to ripen comparatively small and 
inferior. Under the old method of training we frequently see a dis¬ 
play of shreds of ever}? glaring hue and colour, and this not being 
sufficiently odious, they are commonly cut double the needful length, 
and the nails left protruding from the wall at all lengths, from one to 
nearly three inches ; a most preposterous sight!! On Mr. Seymour’s 
plan the shreds are selected, to match the colour of the branches they 
are intended to secure, cut short as circumstances will admit, the 
nails driven up to half an inch, and so concealed at the back of, or 
beyond the branches, as to make them quite imperceptible at the 
distance of the width of the border. The mind is apt to cling to 
fallacies, particularly if they are pleasant to contemplate, and is too 
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