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the future mother branches, which are
ncnrlv iu a vertical position {fig- 79S-), ami qt
fo« first nmniiui are cut down to about Iqm.
0 18 in n S h . and the buds, both before
? /d behind, dUbudded. The
growth produces side b ra n ch y , aud at the end
of th e third summer these have laterals ( fig .
79').)• At the end of nine years th e tr®® P^*
seuts a very handsome appearance ( / g . 800.),
mi l may be said to have reached its greatest
p 3 S n . According toM .L e l^^ra’s method,
the skeleton of the tree is formed, as in
S L t u l first year. T h e second year the
mother branches are cut in to the first lateral branch ®n t h e ^ ^ -
develope itself. The third y e ^ .th e branchy » T h e tree ,” Mr.
same manner, a new brmich hemg suffered f® Established. T h e fourth year, the h>raach®s have
Thompson observes, “ has now all its lower mancnes season. The fifth year the
their leaders shortened, but no m o re l the upper side o f t h e m a in b ra n c h a r e aUowed to
leaders are shortened as usual, and three on the ^jg^th year t ^
push. In the sixth and seventh y®.^5® t® d ev e lL e itse^^^
same process is continued, and a new branch ^ branches for constituting the frame-work
a ss„™e t t e C . . ^ t e 0 f 5 r a n c | ^ j „
I'eft? ’ T t e following s um f e r S ' f rS!°8‘o i " te w .5 to r rV te S e
IS ? S t d S t e h o r a J r tho winter prnning re completed.
801
consequence of leaving the fimt-bearing shoots too S> . . - youth and that too m richer soil
o i> l /S L o î /u a r a ? S , ’f o r ÿ doran ®f f eacbes.^J^ is shown
4409. Chandelier tra in in g . ¿ o d e of traimng, which t ^ a
4410. A mode o f p ru n in g adapted to cold ^ hE’^finds best ca lcu la te ! in such situations and
of th ey eu n g shoots, and f t f™ situation, I preserve a large
a ¿roper direcfion in early spring by the yonrl.ng wood
, , ,‘ . . . . succulent points generally to the le n g ^ ot
'hich numerous blossom-buds torm
myself do to a great exieuu, m i-ur . .un..t.j a«
number of the young shoots, which are emitted ... « i« -i—
ach, where necessary, by pinching off the minute
Spurs which lie close to the wall are thus made, upon
round the metropolis, had been pruned in the manner above described, in the last season, an abundant
and vigorous blossom would have appeared in th e present spring. I do not, however, mean to recommend
to the gardener to tru s t wholly, in any situation, for his crop of fruit to the spurs produced by the
above-mentioned mode of pruning and training th e peach tree . In every warm and favourable situation
I would advise him to train th e larger part of his young wood according to the ordinary method and in
cold and late situations, only, to adopt, to a great extent, th e mode of management above suggested. A
mixture of both modes, in every situation, will be generally found to multiply the chances of success ;
and, therefore, neither ought to be exclusively adopted, n o r wholly rejected, in any situation The spurs
must not be shortened in the winter or spring, till it can be ascertained what parts of them are provided
with leaf-buds.”
_ 4411. T r a in in g . The peach is almost universally trained in the fan manner, though some allege th at
It bears better m rich soils when leading branches are trained nearlv horizontally, and the bearing shoots
trained upwards from those, thus combining horizontal and upright training. Hayward suggests the
wavy-fan manner, as likely to answer better than the common mode of fan-training, and Mr Seymour
has practised a mode which is more systematic, and is considered by many gardeners as greatly preferable
to any other. As we have already described this mode (§ 2574.), we need here do little more than
recommend it. Various discussions will be found respecting it in G a rd . M a s . vol vi n 434 and
p. 4 9 6 .; also vol. vii. p. 241.; and in the i7o?-ric«ft«7-M.Regwie>-. vol. i. r —
299. and 338. ^
4412. The g r e a t adva n ta g e o f S e ym o u r 's mode is its definitiveness.
. p. 531., and v o l.ii. pp. 140. 203.
The system, whether th e tree be
.,.»,...,.,.1. .«.gu ... _c...ai., iiig.i U.I 1U.W, la tut: sauie ; easily uiiuerstood, and Capable of being carried
into e p c u tio n mechanically. There is a distinct and sufficient reason why every side shoot, and everv
lateral proceeding from it, should be precisely where it is, and nowhere else ; and this reason is of th at
practical kind, that it may always be determined by admeasurement. To give an idea of th e appearance
of a tree trained in this manner, we g iv e /g . 803., from the F ore ste r's Record, which is a portrait of
half a nectarii
Yorkshire. The
me, now growing in the gardens, under Mr. Seymour’s t
, - The fruit is produced from th e laterals, and generally not r.u.
the base of every lateral in spring, a second lateral is produced to take t
me oase ot the place of the other a t the
vnutyr pruning. Thus 1 hus none of the laterals are ever more than a year old.
They are cut closely off by
It, of Carleton Hall,
one on each. From
the leading shoots shoqty in order to prevent the appearance of unsightly spurs. After a certaii
certain number o'f
y ^ r s , these leading shoots, being no longer able to produce laterals freely, are cut entirely out and
their place supplied by somc laterals close to the main stem. Wiicn an entire branch or side shoot of
m
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