. The theory and practice of horticulture; or, An attempt to explain the chief operations of gardening upon physiological grounds. which is twelve feet high; and the youngshoots, which the grafts upon these afforded, were trainedinwards, and bent down to occupy the space from which theold central branches had been taken away; and therefore verylittle vacant space remained any where in the end of the firstautumn. A few blossoms, but not any fruit, were produced byseveral of the grafts in the succeeding spring; but in thefollowing year, and subsequently, I have had abundant crops,equally dispers
. The theory and practice of horticulture; or, An attempt to explain the chief operations of gardening upon physiological grounds. which is twelve feet high; and the youngshoots, which the grafts upon these afforded, were trainedinwards, and bent down to occupy the space from which theold central branches had been taken away; and therefore verylittle vacant space remained any where in the end of the firstautumn. A few blossoms, but not any fruit, were produced byseveral of the grafts in the succeeding spring; but in thefollowing year, and subsequently, I have had abundant crops,equally dispersed over every part of the tree; and I havescarcely ever seen such an exuberance of blossom as this tree-presents in the present spring. {Hort. Trans., ii. 78.) 426 EOSE-TEAINING ON HOOPS. The practice was then followed by Sir Joseph Banks, whosefruit-trees trained downwards over the walls of his garden atSpring Grove, and facing the high road, long excited theastonishment of passers by; and it has now been generallyapplied to other cases. What are called BaUoon Apples andPears, formed by forcing downwards all the branches of. standard trees till the points touch the earth, are an instanceof this; and they have the merit of producing large crops offruit in a very small compass: their upper parts are, however,too much exposed to radiation at night, and the crop from thatpart of the branches is apt to be cut off. One of the prettiestapplications of this principle is that of Mr. Charles Lawrence,described in the Oofrdeners Magazine, viii. 680, by means ofwhich standard Eose-trees are converted into masses offlowers. The figure given in that work, and here reproduced(Fig. XCII.), represents the variety called the Bizarre de la TRAINING IMPROVES QUALITY. 427 Chine, which flowered most abundantly to the ends of itsbranches, and was truly a splendid object. All roses will not however submit to this process; it is oiilythe free-growing kinds, such as those having a little alpine orChine
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