The peach and nectarine : their history, varieties, and cultivation . Pig. 21. too, there is less need for stellate fan training than might at first sightappear, as almost every one furnishes walls from the first with the two. Fig. 22. classes of trees—riders and dwarfs—the former to clothe the upperportion of the walls, while the latter are clothing the under, and pre-paring themselves to finally furnish the whole of it. Still, during theinitiatory stages there is often a considerable waste of space immediately TRAINING. 197 aronnd the stems of rider trees ; and the stellate fan is a capital
The peach and nectarine : their history, varieties, and cultivation . Pig. 21. too, there is less need for stellate fan training than might at first sightappear, as almost every one furnishes walls from the first with the two. Fig. 22. classes of trees—riders and dwarfs—the former to clothe the upperportion of the walls, while the latter are clothing the under, and pre-paring themselves to finally furnish the whole of it. Still, during theinitiatory stages there is often a considerable waste of space immediately TRAINING. 197 aronnd the stems of rider trees ; and the stellate fan is a capital form forat once utilising part of this waste, while it is also beantifnl in 18 and 19 show stellate riders half and fully formed, either of whichmay be employed according to circumstances or the space at command. Seymours system of fan training (Figs. 20, 21, and 22) is that mostgenerally adopted. As a rule, two general features distinguish it fromthe open or common English fan. One is that, generally in Seymoursmethod, a centre leader is retained in the tree for the furnishing of sub-leaders at regular intervals, and the other that all the fruit-bearing woodis laid in on the upper side of the branches
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