. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. Book IV. TRAINING. 413 390 neral, the latter mode is preferable (Jig. 389.), as distributing the sap or vigor of the tree more equally. 2147. Oblique training resembles the two last, with this difference, that the lateral shoots are trained obliquely to
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. Book IV. TRAINING. 413 390 neral, the latter mode is preferable (Jig. 389.), as distributing the sap or vigor of the tree more equally. 2147. Oblique training resembles the two last, with this difference, that the lateral shoots are trained obliquely to the main stem. It is particularly adapted for cherries. Thouin remarks, that the shoots should not be raised above an angle of forty-five degrees, unless in the case of a very weak shoot, which, for one season, may be led perpendicularly ; nor lowered below the horizontal line, unless in the case of an excessively strong gourmand or water-shoot. The angle of forty-five degrees indeed is recommended by the French writers, as the best for all shoots of fmit-trees to assume, whether by the training against walls or the pruning of standards. See the articles Espalier and Treille in Cours Complet (VAgriculture, &c. 2148. Perpendicular training is performed by leading one horizontal shoot from each side of the stem, and within a foot or eighteen inches of the ground; the shoots which proceed from these are led up perpendicularly to the top of the wall; sometimes such shoots are trained in the screw or serpentine manner, particularly in vines and currants which bear remarkably well in this form. This is the original mode of training practised by the Dutch, and is still more common in Holland and Flanders than any where else. 2149. Stellate training refers chiefly to standards trained on walls, or what by some are called riders. The summit of the stem being elevated six or eight feet from the ground by its length, the branches are laid in like radii from a centre. 2150. The open f
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