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KSrALIER TRAINING. 



now measures about 20 feel in height. Its 

 circles or tiers of branches, are five in num- 

 ber, disposed at perfectly equal distances, 

 and closely resembling, in effect, a magnifi- 

 cent pyramid. The stem, the branches, 

 and their siioots are all completely clothed 

 with leaves of a fine deep green ; these 

 leaves are regularly and symmetrically dis- 

 posed, and are remarkable in their being 

 bent backwards at their extremities, giving 

 the effect, as well as the form, of the an- 

 tique girandole.'' 



Mr. BuiST, the well known Philadelphia 

 nurseryman, who has already distributed a 

 good many specimens of this tree in the 



United States, informed us last season, that 

 it is entirely hardy in Philadelphia, and our 

 correspondent. Dr. Valk, of Flushing, who 

 has in his garden a specimen 3 feet high, 

 writes us that it has borne the past winter 

 without protection, and apparently unin- 

 jured. 



We ma)' therefore reasonably hope that 

 this unique South American tree, of most 

 singular foliage, striking symmetry, and gi- 

 gantic eatable fruit, will also take its place 

 in our ornamental plantations, along with 

 the Cedar of Lebanon and the Deodar Ce- 

 dar, two of the grandest trees of the Asian 

 world. 



TREATMENT OF ESPALIERS. 



BY .SAMUEL G. PERKLNS, BOSTON. 



Manufacturing fruit-buds on espaliers, in 

 July and September, to create bouquets, or 

 fruit-spurs, close to the lateral trained 

 branches, is an important point in the prun- 

 ing of this description of trees. 



Every one knows that espaliers, or trees 

 trained on trellises or walls, will produce 

 quantities of suckers or wood-shoots, [rob- 

 bers,] from the sides of their leading 

 branches in proportion to the angle that is 

 given the latter by the gardener, or person 

 who trains them ; those branches that are 

 perfectly or nearly horizontal, producing 

 more than those that are elevated to an an- 

 crle of forty-five degrees, more or less. 



On pears trained on the horisontal or 

 Forsyth principle, constant care must be ta- 

 ken to suppress those robbers by continually 

 pinching them at the ends, after they be- 

 come a little hard or woody, until the mid- 

 dle of July, when the first regular pruning 

 or dressing of that year must commence. 



This dressing, or summer pruning, if pro- 

 perly performed, will not only prevent these 

 wood-shoots or robbers from taking away a 

 great deal of sap that is Avanted for the 

 fruit, and for extending or elongating the 

 main or lateral branches, but also that por- 

 tion which is wanted for the swelling and 

 maturity of the buds that are seated at the 

 base of these robbers or false shoots, and 

 which are properly situated to produce the 

 best fruit-buds. 



Thus if you cut-in, or shorten, all the 

 robbers on the branches, so far as you may 

 want them for fruit, you will throw the sap 

 back on to these buds and increase their 

 size and mature them in some degree for 

 their future destination. 



These side shoots in question should be 

 shortened, at the July pruning, down to 

 within four or eight inches of the branch 

 out of which they spring, according to their 

 strength, so as to leave them furnished with 



