PAXTON’S 
HORTICULTURAL REGISTER, 
DECEMBER, 1835. 
HORTICULTURE. 
ON THE EFFECTS OF STOPPING THE BEARING SHOOTS OF FRUIT 
TREES DURING THE SUMMER GROWTH. 
The different methods of training, and the different situations 
assigned to fruit-trees in gardens, occasion a good deal of pruning and 
regulation of the growth at different seasons, requiring the exercise of 
no little skill, and as much attention as any other part of a gardener’s 
business. Fruit trees trained to walls, trellises, or as espaliers, or 
indeed in any other artificial form, are so far cramped in their tenden¬ 
cies to extend and multiply their branches ; it is necessary to keep 
them in the desired form, or within the allotted space, that the knife, 
or the thumb and finger, must be frequently employed to check luxu¬ 
riance, to remove redundance and decayed parts, and to give scope or 
right direction to promising or necessary shoots. 
It is not our intention at present to enter on the general subject of 
pruning. It is a topic which has been so often and so well done before, 
that there is hardly room for any thing new on the matter. And if so 
common a subject receive no new freshness of complexion from a 
modern scribe, he writes in vain, and his readers will yawn over his 
prosy recitations, notwithstanding every direction he gives, and every 
precept he lays down, have sterling merit, and worthy of all 
acceptation. 
Passing, therefore, the winter pruning of the different kinds of fruit 
trees, and also the more important, the far more important , regulation 
of the growth in the months of April, May, and June, let us proceed 
to an ulterior manipulation sometimes performed on the bearing wood of 
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