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Cordon

A plant restricted by pruning to one or occasionally more stems; a method of training apples, pears, gooseberries, tomatoes, and red and white currants, also sometimes used for woody ornamental plants, such as pyracantha and ivy. Also applied to a method of growing sweet peas in which each plant is restricted to one shoot, producing large flowers for exhibition.

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