THE 
HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 
October 1st, 1832. 
PART I. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
HORTICULTURE. 
ARTICLE I.—ON TRAINING FRUIT TREES. 
BIT A JOURNEYMAN GARDENER. 
It is astonishing how deficient most practical men of our profession 
are in the art of training trees. We see in almost every garden, 
trees trained upon the old world fashion, that of laying in a twig 
wherever there is an inch of brick to be seen, without any rule or 
principle, which is certainly a great stigma upon the profession. 
Young practitioners as well as old are in the same fault, and not¬ 
withstanding the present rapid march of intellect, they go on in the 
same way as their fathers did in past ages. Considering a garden 
as a place of pleasure to amuse and delight, the enjoyments derived 
from it must be according to its taste and state of keeping. Now 
as the walls form one of the principle objects in a garden, so the 
trees upon them should be in a good system of training, as the 
beauty of the whole garden depends upon them in a great v measure. 
Handsome trees, I admit, would be a poor recompence, if they could 
only be obtained at the expense of the benefits which ought to be 
derived from the wall, the purpose for which it was erected. But 
when it can by experience be shown, that the greatest crops are in 
general those obtained from trees possessing the greatest symmetry 
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