The peach and nectarine : their history, varieties, and cultivation . FiQ. appearance, and are also well displayed for continuous fertilityif carefully managed, so as to keep up a constant supply of young shootsas fruit-bea,ring wood. One of the chief merits of the cordon system, of which we ofEer severalillustrations (Figs. 31 to 34 inclusive), is that the trees may be limited. Fio. 31. PiQ. 32. Ila. S3- to the smallest dimensions, that of a single stem (Fig. 31), or of two,three, or more stems, as in the following figures. It is, consequently, of training admirably adapte
The peach and nectarine : their history, varieties, and cultivation . FiQ. appearance, and are also well displayed for continuous fertilityif carefully managed, so as to keep up a constant supply of young shootsas fruit-bea,ring wood. One of the chief merits of the cordon system, of which we ofEer severalillustrations (Figs. 31 to 34 inclusive), is that the trees may be limited. Fio. 31. PiQ. 32. Ila. S3- to the smallest dimensions, that of a single stem (Fig. 31), or of two,three, or more stems, as in the following figures. It is, consequently, of training admirably adapted for ungenial soils amd unfavourablesituations. In the event, for example, of a cordon peach tree dying,the death creates but a smaU blank, and may be at once replaced—no 202 THE PEACH AND NEOTABINE. small advantage where land is dear and wall space, as it always is, valu-able. The cordon mode of training is likewise admirahly adapted forlow walls and small gardens. On low walls the cordons may be trained obliquely over the walls, as inFig. 34, and the end space filled up with a multiple cordon at the comer,as there shown. On taller walla, again, the cordons may be trainedvertically, as in Figs. 31, 32, and 33. These miniature fruit-bearingtrees are also most yalnable for small gardens. There are thousands ofthe latter up and down the country in which sufficient space cannot befo
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