. The American farmer. A hand-book of agriculture for the farm and garden ... Agriculture. 588 farmer's hand-book. size of that for which they are intended, in order that they may never com- press the shoots so much as to impede the returning sap, and their hreadth may be from half to three quarters of an inch to a whole inch. They should be folded up a little at each end, so that in driving the nail through the shred it will pierce four times its thickness, and be in no danger of tearing. Training Herbaceous and Shrubby Plants in Pots. — These, being in a highly artificial state, when they re
. The American farmer. A hand-book of agriculture for the farm and garden ... Agriculture. 588 farmer's hand-book. size of that for which they are intended, in order that they may never com- press the shoots so much as to impede the returning sap, and their hreadth may be from half to three quarters of an inch to a whole inch. They should be folded up a little at each end, so that in driving the nail through the shred it will pierce four times its thickness, and be in no danger of tearing. Training Herbaceous and Shrubby Plants in Pots. — These, being in a highly artificial state, when they require training should have straight rods, or symmetrical frames of laths or of wire-work. A common mode for the grape is seen in the annexed cut; formed of rods and rings of stout wire, the whole being painted according to the taste of the grower. Fig. Training Hardy Flowering Shrubs in the Open Ground. —Trailing and creeping shrubs seldom require any assistance from art, excepting when they are made to grow upright on posts, trellises, or walls. The cut which follows represents a climbing rose, trained down from a ring which forms the top to an iron rod. This is called the balloon manner of training, and was first applied to apple-trees. When the rod is fixed in the ground, the ring at the top should stand an inch or two higher than the graft at the top of the stock, or than the head formed on the stem of the plant, if it should not have been grafted. Six or eight of the strongest shoots are then to be selected, and tied to the ring with tarred twine; and if, from their length, they are liable to blow about, their ends are attached to twine, continued from the wire to pegs stuck in the ground, as shown in the figure. Training Fruit-trees. — By far the most important application of training is to fruit-trees, whether for the purpose of rendering them more prolific, improving the quality of the fruit, growing fruit in the open air which could not otherwise be grown,
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