The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . the aid of three circular hoops (BB),or, perhaps, at less expense, lightiron rods might be substituted forwood. Around this cylinder shouldbe planted three vigorous pear trees,(C C C) one year old, setting them 2. plan or the spiral from each other around the circumference; placethe roots of the trees in an inclined position, so that thestems may lay at an angle of 25°. Then prune off one thirdof their length, and coil the remainder around the cylinder,attaching them by a flexi
The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . the aid of three circular hoops (BB),or, perhaps, at less expense, lightiron rods might be substituted forwood. Around this cylinder shouldbe planted three vigorous pear trees,(C C C) one year old, setting them 2. plan or the spiral from each other around the circumference; placethe roots of the trees in an inclined position, so that thestems may lay at an angle of 25°. Then prune off one thirdof their length, and coil the remainder around the cylinder,attaching them by a flexible stick, fitted beforehand upon theupright rods, always following the same inclination that hasjust been indicated. Practise during the following summerthe operation of cutting or pinching off the lateral branches,in order to transfer them into fruit spurs, and favor as muchas possible the development of the terminal shoots. At the time of the winter pruning tie in the terminalbranches, following the same degree of inclination as pre-viously, and leave them their entire length. Their inclina-. JANUARY. 37 tion upon an angle of 25° is sufficient to cause the movementof all the buds, even to tkeir base. Continue to apply, dur-ing summer, the necessary care to transform the lateralbranches into fruit spurs, and to divert also all the action ofthe sap towards the extremity. These operations should berepeated every year, causing the stem to advance one spiralannually, by which means, in the space of six or seven years,the cylinder is covered with wood to the summit, which issupposed to be about ten feet high. Each stem, therefore,will be seven metres in length, (about 22 feet) and at inter-vals of thirty centimetres (about 1 foot) between each stem. All the varieties of pears which ripen their fruits with cer-tainty in the open air can be trained in this form. In theselection of trees choose those grafted upon the quince orupon the pear, as for other modes of training, according
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