. The book of the garden. Gardening. hayward's mode of PEAtH-TRAINING, Fig. CALLOW S MODS OF PEACH-TRAINING. —when the tree has arrived at its full size and form. Some attention is required at starting upon this principle. From our figure it will be seen that two branches start from the main stem, and are laid in in nearly a horizontal direc- tion. To secure this without loss of time, it be- comes desirable that these shoots should be pro- duced the first year from budding. " This may be done," Mr Hayward observes, " by either in- serting the buds opposite to each other in
. The book of the garden. Gardening. hayward's mode of PEAtH-TRAINING, Fig. CALLOW S MODS OF PEACH-TRAINING. —when the tree has arrived at its full size and form. Some attention is required at starting upon this principle. From our figure it will be seen that two branches start from the main stem, and are laid in in nearly a horizontal direc- tion. To secure this without loss of time, it be- comes desirable that these shoots should be pro- duced the first year from budding. " This may be done," Mr Hayward observes, " by either in- serting the buds opposite to each other in the stock, or, when performing the operation of budding, those buds only should be inserted which have three leaves appended to them, as from such buds three shoots will be produced. Then, as soon as the buds begin to swell in the spring, the centre shoot should be picked out with the point of a pen-knife: the two lesser shoots will then push out sufficiently strong to form two equal stems; and these, if carefully guarded, will produce a plant of proper growth the first year from the budding. But if plants with two equal stems are not to be had, plants with one good stem only may be made to throw out a second one without, qutting back. By this mode one stem will appear to be a year behind the other in growth; but as the division of sap. will be equal in a few years, the youngest will attain the size of the other, and in the end both stems will be equal in their appearance and in their ; Hayward's theory has been ra- ther severely treated by theoretical critics, many of whom find it easier to discover faults than to remedy them. His writings, although not in all cases agreeing with the generally- received physiological opinions, may nevertheless, as a whole, be perused with advantage. Callow's method of training the peach, fig. 223, shows the main branches in a position more horizontal than that in modes in general use ; the ends, however, of all the leading bran
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