The Miniature Fruit Garden ; Or, the Culture of Pyramidal And Bush Fruit Trees ..
The book The Miniature Fruit Garden ; Or, the Culture of Pyramidal And Bush Fruit Trees .. was written by author Rivers, Thomas, 1798-1877 Here you can read free online of The Miniature Fruit Garden ; Or, the Culture of Pyramidal And Bush Fruit Trees .. book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Miniature Fruit Garden ; Or, the Culture of Pyramidal And Bush Fruit Trees .. a good or bad book?
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I have only to add that, besides my plantation of ("ox's Orange Pippin, I have another of upwards of 400 trees, Vvdiich has now been in existence upwards of ten years, so that I am not theorizing, but dedu- cing facts from a sound basis. APPLES AS SINGLE LATERAL COKDONS. The French gardeners often train an apple tree " en cordon horizontale," as an edging to the borders in their kitchen gardens, after the following mode : — A Fig. 13. tree grafted on the Paradise or Doucin stock, with a single ...shoot, is planted in a sloping position, and the shoot trained along a wire, about ten or twelve inches from the surface. (Fig. 13.) To carry out this method of training, oak posts, about three inches in diameter and two feet in length, should be sharpened at one end and driven into the ground, so that they stand one foot above the surface ; they may be from thirty to forty yards distant from each other. From these a piece of galvanized or common iron wire — if the latter, it should be painted — about the thickness of whipcord, should be strained, and sup- ported nine inches from the ground, at intervals of six 76 THE MINIATURE FRUIT GARDEN.
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