. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. APP 56 APP Fig. 17.—(P .51.). one of which will be the leader, and the others will form the first or lower tier of bearing branches, which are to be secured to small stakes, so as to keep them in their proper places. The following season the upright leader must be shortened to nine inches or a foot above the two horizontal branches, and deprived of all its shoots excepting the three uppermost, which are to be treated the same as before. In this way the leading shoot is to be stopped at the requisite distance above the horizontal ones, until it has
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. APP 56 APP Fig. 17.—(P .51.). one of which will be the leader, and the others will form the first or lower tier of bearing branches, which are to be secured to small stakes, so as to keep them in their proper places. The following season the upright leader must be shortened to nine inches or a foot above the two horizontal branches, and deprived of all its shoots excepting the three uppermost, which are to be treated the same as before. In this way the leading shoot is to be stopped at the requisite distance above the horizontal ones, until it has reached the height of five feet. It is then cut off, and no more allowed to grow up- right, the whole strength of the tree being directed to the fruiting branches. —Gard. Chron. Espalier apple trees should be at not less than twenty feet distance ; but five- and-thirty feet is better, especially for trees grafted on crab or apple stocks, which are free shooters ; for trees graft- ed on codlin and paradise stocks eigh- teen or twenty feet may be a sufficient distance. They should be planted with their heads entire, only removing any very irregular growths that do not range consistent with the intended form, and pruning any broken roots. Let all the branches be trained horizontally to the right and left, an equal number on each side, all at full length, five or six inches asunder, and, according as they shoot in summer, still continue them along entire. At the same time train in a further supply of new shoots, to increase the number of horizontals or bearers, and thus continue increasing their num- bers every year, till the espalier is regularly filled from the bottom to top, I preserving all the branches at full | length, as far as the allotted space will admit. They must have a summer and a winter pruning annually; in the sum- mer cut out all the superfluous and ill— j placed shoots of the year, and train regular ones towards the lower parts in vacant spaces, at least to
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