. The book of the garden. Gardening. HAYWARD S MODE OF PEACH-TRAINING. Fig. 219. and it is not only in this respect evident that the flow of the sap is impelled by a principle directly opposite to that which impels the flow of watei', but as Fig. 217. water will flow over a great height above its level, with equal rapid- ity through a syphon as through a tube of the same size placed in a declining position, and leading into an open space below its level ; so will the sap flow through a branch so disposed as to form an inverted syphon in equal quantity as through- the same branch had it been fi
. The book of the garden. Gardening. HAYWARD S MODE OF PEACH-TRAINING. Fig. 219. and it is not only in this respect evident that the flow of the sap is impelled by a principle directly opposite to that which impels the flow of watei', but as Fig. 217. water will flow over a great height above its level, with equal rapid- ity through a syphon as through a tube of the same size placed in a declining position, and leading into an open space below its level ; so will the sap flow through a branch so disposed as to form an inverted syphon in equal quantity as through- the same branch had it been fixed in a vertical posi- tion. Thus the strong- est shoot, will form at the point-bud a, fig. 217 ; or as in figs. 218 and 219. But if a branch be fixed in a horizontal position "— as in fig. 220—"the strongest shoot will be produced in the most vertical bud nearest the base a, and the point- bud b will form the weakest shoot: it must, then, be obvious, that if it be desired to train the branches in a hori- zontal position, and still to extend them as much as possible in length, the point of the branch 6 must be turned up," as in fig. 221. "The point-bud b will then form nearly as strong a j shoot as if the branch had been fixed in a vertical position ; and the bud at a, from its vertical position, and being nearest the root, will take a large share of sap, and form a strong shoot also ; if there- fore it be desired to direct the full supply of the sap to the point-bud b, and from that to form the strong- Fig. 221. est shoot the root will b supply, the buds at a, with all inter- vening buds, must be re- moved: when hayward's mode of peach-training, all interven- ing buds are removed, as habit soon reconciles a plant to the position of its trunk, its sap will be passed with 3 R HAYWARD s mode of peach-training. Fig. HAYWARD S MODE OF Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enh
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