The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . case of Diagonal Cordon trainingagainst walls, all forcrights must also be preserved. Theleader will soon reach eight or ten feet, and can, in the win-ter pruning, be lowered to 45 degrees, there to remain in fu-ture. As in peaches, a strong lateral shoot having been JUNE. 257 reserved to form the second leader, which is also, of course,twelve inches distant, it will be shortened-in a little, and soready to be bent upwards as the second leader next fact, the principles for forming a
The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . case of Diagonal Cordon trainingagainst walls, all forcrights must also be preserved. Theleader will soon reach eight or ten feet, and can, in the win-ter pruning, be lowered to 45 degrees, there to remain in fu-ture. As in peaches, a strong lateral shoot having been JUNE. 257 reserved to form the second leader, which is also, of course,twelve inches distant, it will be shortened-in a little, and soready to be bent upwards as the second leader next fact, the principles for forming a Diagonal Cordon, withtriple leaders, are similar to those in the peach, with tliemarked exception of the treatment of the spurs. In the win-ter pruning of these spurs, and the two shoots on each, whichhaving been several times pinched in, look like fig. 11, theymust now be broken, not cut at four inches. The originalspurs add an inch or so to the total length, but it will alwaysbe easy to keep the shoots and spurs under six inches. Someof the shoots may have less than the three buds shown, which. 12. FORMATION OF FRUITFUL SPURS ON THE PEAR. COMPLETION. is of no consequence, for one fruitful bud is enough on eachshoot. At the completion of the pruning (see fig. 12), whenin winter, the ends are finally to be cut off,—not broken now,as in FIG. 11, where the object is different. When the endsare finally cut off, as seen, then nothing remains to be done,for the buds will have that appearance of protuberance androundness that they can no longer be mistaken. They are toremain, therefore, on the shoots, one, two, or three, but nevermore. The three leaders will shortly be completed, and the walllook remarkably well. An immense saving of time is gainedin this way. There are other irregular forms to be met withamong the spurs, but they cannot be entered into in so brief VOL. XXVIII.—NO. VI. 17 258 THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. a work as this is. I will therefore only add, that as soon
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