. An encyclopædia of gardening; . le which he follows, is never to allow the shoots that are left forbearing fruit, to run to any length from the strong wood; for which reason, when the trees are pruned inautumn the bearing branches for the next year are shortened, taking care not to leave more fruiting-budsthan he thinks will come to perfection. {Hort. Trans, vol. ii. p. 14.; Harrisons Tr. on Fr. Trees, ch. xxv.) 4503. Training. The peach is almost uni-versally trained in the fan manner, though someallege that it bears better in rich soils when lead-ing branches are trained nearly horizontall
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . le which he follows, is never to allow the shoots that are left forbearing fruit, to run to any length from the strong wood; for which reason, when the trees are pruned inautumn the bearing branches for the next year are shortened, taking care not to leave more fruiting-budsthan he thinks will come to perfection. {Hort. Trans, vol. ii. p. 14.; Harrisons Tr. on Fr. Trees, ch. xxv.) 4503. Training. The peach is almost uni-versally trained in the fan manner, though someallege that it bears better in rich soils when lead-ing branches are trained nearly horizontally, andthe bearing shoots trained upwards from those,thus combining horizontal and upright suggests the wavy-fan manner (), as likely to answer better than the commonmode of fan-training. 4504. Hazards mode of training peach-trees is as : in the course of the winter he cuts over the youngtree above the graft, leaving four or five buds to produceas many branches. In July foLowing, he cuts out, close. Book I. PEACH. 717 to the main stem, all other branches than those absolutely needed for furnishing the tree. He trainsregularly to the right and left j but the weaker branches receive less inclination, or are placed more up-right than the stronger ones, that this more favorable position may give them energy, and bring them toan equality of vigor with the stronger branches which are laid in horizontally. At the first regular form-ing or cutting in, about a year and a half after planting, the branches are reduced to two on each side;and at the next pruning, one branch is removed on each side, leaving the tree to be formed only of twoprincipal branches, and those the most equally balanced as to general form and promise. If the firstyears growth do not yield two sufficiently good leading branches, they are sought from the growth of thesecond year; the best branch of the former year is now, with this view, trained upright as a stem, andtwo leading branch
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