Page:The British Fruit-Gardener.djvu/27

 to the right and left, at full length all Summer; and in Winter or Spring following may prune them to ten or twelve inches, to promote a farther necessary supply of six, eight, or more, regular branches below, training them as above, after which they need not be pruned so short, but continue encreasing the number of horizontals every year, trained five or six inches distance, till they cover the assigned space of walling and espalier in a regular expansion.

And, as the trees thus trained will throw out numerous useless shoots every Summer, they will accordingly require a general pruning and training every Summer and Winter, in common with other wall and espalier trees; in order,