. The book of the garden. Gardening. THE PEACH AND NECTARINE. 493 subject he says: " As the fructification of plants depends much upon the state and condition of the branches, and the surface of the trank, branches, and leaves exposed to the sun and the air, the proper adjustment and arrangement of these must be an important object of our consideration. Experience proves that very fine fruit is seldom produced on vei-y strong or on very weak branches, but generally on branches of a middle growth ; therefore, to render n. tree permanently fruitful, it must be necessary to manage and train
. The book of the garden. Gardening. THE PEACH AND NECTARINE. 493 subject he says: " As the fructification of plants depends much upon the state and condition of the branches, and the surface of the trank, branches, and leaves exposed to the sun and the air, the proper adjustment and arrangement of these must be an important object of our consideration. Experience proves that very fine fruit is seldom produced on vei-y strong or on very weak branches, but generally on branches of a middle growth ; therefore, to render n. tree permanently fruitful, it must be necessary to manage and train it in such a manner that all the sustenance furnished by the roots shall be appropriated to the production of branches of a proper and equal growth, and that these be so arranged as to present the needful surface of leaves to the required infiuence of the sun and air. In determining the form and :e of a tree, as few persons are so devoid of taste as to prefer deformity to symmetry, or to be indifferent whether their plants and trees ex- hibit beauty or ugliness iu their forms and figures, we may take it for granted that it must be desirable, as far as possible, to blend beauty with prolificacy in training them, which may be done in great perfection. But the raising and training a tree is like the building of a house, or the raising any regular structure ; for if the plan be not first arranged and understood, and a proper foundation laid to sustain it, disorder and confusion must pervade the structure, and it can never be rendered desirable, commodious, or elegant. Then as the first stem and branch of a plant must form the foundation of the future tree, before we fix on a plan, or begin to train, we must first determine the space it is intended to occupy, and next, the form we wish it to assume. Every plant and tree is appointed by nature to attain a certain comparative height, and fill a certain comparative space, before it fructifies. Then in determining the heights to w
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