ON TRAINING PEACHES AND NECTARINES. 
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or in any other form to suit the taste of the gardener, and will an¬ 
swer well in any of those forms with good management and proper 
attention. 
In several circuits I have lately made through portions of the re¬ 
spective counties of York, Nottingham, Derby, Chester and Lancas¬ 
ter, my attention has been partially and painfully directed, to the de- 
lipidated condition of trained wall trees, which in many instances 
were not only devoid of all system, hut of all order, and only calcu¬ 
lated to disfigure the walls they were intended to adorn. The same 
kind of negligence prevails in gardens, where cultivation in other 
respects is praiseworthy in the highest degree. To name is always 
inviduous, and I would not presume to refer thus generally to the 
management of others, were it not in the hope of stimulating the 
ideas of junior gardeners to increased exertions in this department of 
their profession. 
I presume it will he admitted by every one devoted to horticultu¬ 
ral pursuits, that the highest attainable perfection in training wall 
trees, consists in an uniformity of figure, the most exact proportion, 
and equal distribution, of productive wood over its entire superficial 
extent, combined with the most conclusive evidence of health and 
vigour. In regard to these particular considerations, trees trained on 
the plan of Mr. Seymour bid defiance to all competitors. 
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Figure 22 represents a branch of a tree on this system in the be¬ 
ginning of June with its fruit hearing laterals, and its successional 
ones secured under or over them, according to circumstances, or as to 
the particular point from whence they struck. For the forthcoming 
season by being tied close at the base with matting or tape, and 
sufficiently tight not only to place it in juxta position, but also to 
bruise the hark of the young shoot, thereby causing a callosity, 
and an obstruction to the free ascension of the sap, and occasioning 
a predisposition for the young shoot to strike the next coming sea¬ 
son, at that identical point. The laterals are frequently confined in 
their exact position on the wall by an hempen string attaching 
them to the main branches, and also to nails well driven up, and 
this plan is preferable to shreds for the laterals, inasmuch as it occu¬ 
pies less space, is less obtrusive on the eye, and is equally efficient. 
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