. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. THE HAEDY FEUIT GAEDEX. 17 again in August. The season teing liot and dry, the power of the sun on the hard sloping hank was so great that the whole of the three growths were ripened, unless just at the tips of the shoots. These were cut off in the winter, and the next season the cordons fruited on the &st and most of the second-made wood. This crop of fruit and the subsequent effects of drought and heat Tery nearly abohshed the necessity of future pruning, and re- solved their further training into a mere matter of tying in their heads to the ware
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. THE HAEDY FEUIT GAEDEX. 17 again in August. The season teing liot and dry, the power of the sun on the hard sloping hank was so great that the whole of the three growths were ripened, unless just at the tips of the shoots. These were cut off in the winter, and the next season the cordons fruited on the &st and most of the second-made wood. This crop of fruit and the subsequent effects of drought and heat Tery nearly abohshed the necessity of future pruning, and re- solved their further training into a mere matter of tying in their heads to the wares. The fruit, too, gardens. It will be easy to see how our Figs. 8 and 9 may be converted by a series of stoppings and winter prunings, such as we have described, into these forms. It is found in practice that bush Apples under proper management produce quantities of the very finest fruit. After growing into fair size—say four feet high and one yard through—top growths should be discouraged by heavy crops of fruit, and root-pruning, as under such repressive treatment the trees continue in good condition and carry capital crops of fruit for many years without greatly enlarg-. Fig. 23.—DiAJioxD CoREOx. was exceptionally good in colour and flavour, the size being somewhat reduced by over-cropping. As a rule, however, as already remarked, the fruit on cordon Apples is far above the average size, and not a few grown by us on horizontal, oblique, and zigzag cordons, are models at once of beauty and <iuality. AYe use the latter form (Fig. 30) frequently, to fit into vacant spaces between Peach or Apricot trees on walls, and such trees have been much admired lor their effect, as well as greatly prized for their fuU peld of fruit of the highest quality. Horizontal Apple cordons are also run along the bases of walls within a few inches of the ground, with equally satisfactory results. Bush. Apple-trees.—In Fig. 24 we give an il- lustration of the most useful form for small or
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