The fruits and fruit-trees of America; . Quenouille or Conical Training, progressive stages. Conical or Quenouille Training, complete. summer, c, and kept in a pendulous position for a year or two, by tyingthem to stakes driven in the ground, or to the main stem. This succes-sive giowth at the top, and arrangement of the limbs below, must till the requisite height—say ten feet—is attained, when, allthe branches assuming their final form, the tree will resemble Fig. moderate pruning to produce new wood, and the occasional tying in ofa rambling slioot, will be all that is requi
The fruits and fruit-trees of America; . Quenouille or Conical Training, progressive stages. Conical or Quenouille Training, complete. summer, c, and kept in a pendulous position for a year or two, by tyingthem to stakes driven in the ground, or to the main stem. This succes-sive giowth at the top, and arrangement of the limbs below, must till the requisite height—say ten feet—is attained, when, allthe branches assuming their final form, the tree will resemble Fig. moderate pruning to produce new wood, and the occasional tying in ofa rambling slioot, will be all that is required. The French quenouilledraining is performed with dwarf stocks, but the trees are more thriftyand durable when grafted on their ovm stocks, and k(;pt -ndthin properbiunds by root-pruning after Mr. Riverss methoa, explained in apre\TLOus page. Pyramids and hushes are trees adapted for small gardens, and notstandards such as are planted in orchards. Mr. Rivers, whose success intraining and fruiting dwarf trees has hardly an equal,
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