Ce guide sur la culture fruitière en Amérique couvre les techniques de gestion des arbres fruitiers, en se concentrant sur la méthode de formation horizontale pour les espalier, et fournit des descriptions de diverses variétés de fruits, à la fois indigènes et importés.
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. The fruits and fruit trees of America : or, The culture, propagation and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally, with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country . Fruit-culture; Fruit. HORIZONTAL TRAINING. 41 have four horizontal branches on each side of the ipright stem as in Fig. 24; and by persevering in this system four horizontal branches will be produced in each year till the tree reaches the top of the wall (or espalier, ) when the upright stem must tenni- nate in two horizontal branches. In the following autumn tho. Fig. 25. SorieoTUal training^ fmi/rSi year, tree will have the appearance of Fig.'25."ââ Suburban Horticul- turist, pp. 363 : 3T2. Training fruit trees is nowhere in tho United States practised to much extent except in the neighbourhood of Boston ; and som& of the best specimens-of the foregoing methods in that neighbourhood are in the gardens of J. P. Gushing, Esq., Col. Perkins, and~S. G. Perkins, Esq. CHAPTEE V. TRANSPLANTING. As nearly all fruit trees are raised first in nurseries, and then removed to their final position in the orchard or fruitgarden; as upon the manner of this removal depends not only their slow or rapid-growth, their feebleness or vigour afterwards, and in many cases even their life, it is evident that it is in the highest degree important to understand and practise well this transplanting. The season best adapted for transplanting fruit trees is a mat- ter open to much difiference of opinion amon^ horticulturists ; a difference founded ipainly on experience, but without taking into account variation of climate and soils, two very important circumstances in all operations of this kind. AH physiologists, however, agree that the best season for transplanting deciduous trees is in autumn, directly after the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - colo
