The fruits and fruit trees of America; or, the culture, propagation, and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally; with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country . rslet in, and crossed by hght perpendicular straps of pine from six to twelveinches apart, will form an excellent and durable trellis for espaliers. See Indeed many gardeners here prefer having a light trelhs a few inchesfrom the wall, upon which to train, instead of nailing directly on the wall QUENOUILLE STANDARDS. 37 attained the heiglit of fro
The fruits and fruit trees of America; or, the culture, propagation, and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally; with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country . rslet in, and crossed by hght perpendicular straps of pine from six to twelveinches apart, will form an excellent and durable trellis for espaliers. See Indeed many gardeners here prefer having a light trelhs a few inchesfrom the wall, upon which to train, instead of nailing directly on the wall QUENOUILLE STANDARDS. 37 attained the heiglit of from six to twelve feet before the brancheswere bent down; but the effect of this was to cover the shootswith blossom buds, and to produce the most extraordinary crops. To produce Quenouillestandards, plant a youngtree, three or four feethigh, and, after the firstsummers growth, headback the top, and cut-inthe side branches, as re-presented by the dottedlines, on «, Fig. 1G, Thenext season the tree willshoot out three or fourtiers of side branches, ac-cording to its lowest should beleft about eighteen inchesfrom the ground, and, bypinching off superfluousshoots, others may bemade to grow pretty re-At the end of this season. a QuenoudUe or conical training, pro-gressive stages. gularly, so as not to crowd the head,head back the leader as in 6, tostrengthen the side shoots. Nextseason a fresh series of lateral shootswill be produced, four or five ofwhich may be kept every year; andthe third or fourth year, the lowerbranches may be bent down in mid-summer, c, and kept in a pendulousposition for a year or two, by tyingthem to stakes driven in the ground,or to the main stem. This success-ive growth at the top, and arrange-ment of the limbs below, must becontinued till the requisite height—say ten feet—is attained, when all thebranches assuming their final form,the tree w^ill resemble Fig. 1*7. Amoderate pruning to produce newwood, and the occasional tying in ofa ramb
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