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that striking appearance. It is rather advantageous from the 

 photographic point of view because it gives us a chance to 

 see just how the tree looks. These trees are okl and neglected, 

 by the way, and do not show the nice symmetrical, clean-cut, 

 well-kept forms which you will find on carefully trained trees. 



This is another portion of the same place, showing horizon- 

 tally cordon apple trees. These apple trees will be a foot and 

 a half or two feet from the ground. Now there are great ad- 

 vantages in that. They have the advantage which I spoke of 

 in respect to the trees growing against the side of the brick 

 wall, that they receive the reflected heat from the soil and that 

 they receive during the night a considerable amount of heat 

 taken up by the soil during the day and given back to the fruit 

 during the night. It is much easier to take care of trees 

 eighteen or twenty- four inches high. 



This is a little apple tree growing in a little private garden 

 down in Kent in southern England. You will see they vary a 

 great deal, some of the trees being very symmetrical, very fine, 

 and others poor and untidy. Of course a tree in these various 

 forms requires constant care — not merely one pruning once in 

 five years as some of our trees get in Massachusetts, but five 

 prunings every year — looking after all the while. 



These trees are peaches, of course under glass, for in Eng- 

 land peaches are grown practically only upon walls and under 

 glass. One must have a good deal of faith in horticulture 

 when he can afford to glass over his orchard. As a matter 

 of fact some of these glass houses grow fruit for the market, 

 not so much in England as in Belgium and northern France; 

 but still there are hundreds of acres of them altogether — I don't 

 think I could say thousands, but hundreds of acres in fruit 

 trees in the old country which are grown as a commercial 

 enterprise in glasshouses. 



This is a typical tree for use in a glass house. Some of 

 them are bush-formed trees in pots, and some of them are 

 spread out on trellises as you saw them in a former picture. 

 This happens to be a nectarine which is grown in England 

 largely in preference to the peach, and I am unable to under- 

 stand why it is not more widely grown in America. As one 

 finds them in the old country they are fully as good as peaches 

 and in many ways superior. 



