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ON TRAINING PEACHES AND NECTARINES. 
ready to resist any attempt to disabuse it, however pernicious the 
error may be ; yet truth is always beneficial, even when unpalatable, 
and they are our best friends who force us to receive it. In answer 
to my former remarks on training &c. Vol. 1, page 675, there are 
two ostensible objections to my statement by Mr. H.; the first, is of 
that equivocal character as renders further explanation unnecessary: 
with regard to the second objection, namely “ that Mr. Seymour’s 
trees have rugged protuberances similar to the spur of a pear tree.” 
In vindication of the system of Mr. Seymour, and also of his par¬ 
ticular trees, I feel obliged, though very reluctantly, to observe that 
such statement must have originated in misconception. 
From your corresjjondents’ observations, I find several individuals 
have formed erroneous conclusions of Mr. Seymour’s system, by de¬ 
voting too much of their attention to the rough skeleton outline of 
the rudiments of such trees as have been previously exhibited, and 
paying too little regard to the descriptive method of training by 
which they are accompanied. I have, therefore attempted to give a 
more accurate outline of a tree on this system, (Fig. 21) one of six 
years standing, and I lament that it is not in my power to display its 
beauties on paper, in any degree equal to its natural appearance on 
the wall. 
21 
I have lately had the superintendence of young trees on the plan 
here delineated, and have often witnessed with delight, the magical 
effect produced on visitors by their simultaneous uniformity. Trees 
on this system may be trained semi-circular, elliptical, horizontal 
