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On Training Fruit Trees. 
and to the natural bent of the sap> and the root^ are going progres¬ 
sively on with an increasing vigour. ' 
I am of opinion that all those trees which produce their fruit upon 
a succession of young wood of the former year, would do much better 
by inverting the usual fan form, and to bring the fan from the top of 
the w'all instead of the bottom. Tf what is called the Peacock-tail” 
form be so superior to the old fan, as to have long become the 
favourite method of many good practical gardeners, it very naturally 
suggests itself, that to entirely invert the fan must very soon prove 
its superiority to all other forms, for such fruit trees as produce the 
most abundant crops upon the young wood of the former year. No 
part of the tree besides the stem, being directed towards the perpen¬ 
dicular, the sap can have no other free tendency than to distribute 
itself equally through every part of the branches, and thereby keep 
up a regular supply of fine young wood throughout. 
a b c 
Figure 82 (a) is a representation of one on the above plan, estab¬ 
lished and made its first year’s wood, and trained down, so as to 
become the rudiments of the future tree: 5, represents the same tree 
after it has made the second year’s wood, and trained in for the next 
season; and c, after the third season. 
83 
Figure 83 represents three trees full trained upon the above method. 
Any over luxuriance can readily be kept checked by suffering it to 
break out upon the upper part of those shoots inclining horizontally 
under the coping of the wall, the same as at figure 80, as from the 
tendency of the sap to a perpendicular direction it is readily disposed 
to do. They can be reduced or cut entirely away again in due time, 
when the end is obtained. 
If a new wall is to be furnished w'ith trees upon the method which 
T have suggested, it has no need to be lost wdiile the trees are in 
