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ON TRAINING TREES. 
ARTICLE IV. 
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ON TRAINING TREES.— by mr. haythorn. 
Late Gardener to the Rt. Hon. Lord Middleton, Wollaton-Hall, Notts. 
I beg to lay before your readers a successful method I practised 
with some old Pear Trees in Wollaton Gardens; they were all trained 
on the fan fashion, and the wall being too low for them, (only from 
ten to twelve feet high) they made an exceeding quantity of breast- 
wood ; being full of old spurs, they had become, by repeated cutting, 
like a dipt hedge, and only bore fruit at the extremities of the side 
branches. I was very desirous to find out some means to bring them 
into a bearing state in the centre of the trees, as well as the extremi¬ 
ties, without heading them down, not wishing to have much naked 
wall. I first took out the centre and most upright branches, (fig, 99) 
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And when the spurs had grown to a sufficient length, and had ac¬ 
quired a degree of hardness, they were trained inwards; these bran¬ 
ches bore great plenty of very fine fruit, which induced me to use 
something of the same means to improve the rest of the trees. I 
next proceeded to cut away all the other branches, except three on 
each side, figure 100. 
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