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ON TRAINING FRUIT TREES. 
and elegance, so great blame must necessarily be attached to those 
who have not their trees trained upon the form most suitable for uti¬ 
lity and*elegance, the blame may lie with the gardener, with his 
master, or with both, as the case may be : if with the gardener, he is 
a disgrace to his profession; if with his master, it is a disgrace to 
his taste; and as he is perfectly at will to please himself in that par¬ 
ticular, so other persons are also at will to question his taste, whether 
it be refined or ridiculous. I have been partly induced to send you 
these thoughts by seeing in the Register two articles upon training, 
one by Mr. Mearns, and the other by Mr. Haythorn, upon both of 
which I take the liberty of making a few remarks. 
I think Mr. Haythorn did as well as could be done with the 
old trees he had to deal with, unless he had actually stubbed them 
up, root and branch, the plan I would undoubtedly have taken, had 
they been left to my will. I can only see that by his method, he is 
protracting for a very little period the existence of the aged and 
worn out trees, and losing time by not having his wall filled with 
young ones. With Mr. Mearns, it is a different thing, his way of 
training, I think objectionable in many respects. By his inverse 
mode of training upon walls, it would seem to be his maxim to stunt, 
and retard nature in her supplies, that she may be more liberal to 
him in return, a thing not to be expected. I send you a sketch of 
a low standard peach tree, and I leave it for you and your readers to 
judge, whether they would expect the greatest benefits from such a 
one, or from one trained after his peacock tail manner. Instead of 
pinching, I would let them extend to their utmost length, for which 
purpose, trees trained in the eliptical manner, shown Fig. 117, are 
well adapted. 
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