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and sunny a position as possible, while the form recommended for walls should 

 be used extensively. In no case should the system be tried except as a garden 

 one, an improved method of orcharding being what we want for kitchen fruit, and 

 for the supply of the markets at a cheap rate. 



" ' When lines of cordons are perfectly well furnished, the whole line is a thick 

 mass of bold spurs. Some keep them very closely pinched in to the rod, but 

 the best I have ever seen were allowed a rather free development of spurs, care 

 being taken that they were regularly and densely produced along the stem. The 

 system, as generally applied to the apple, is simply a bringing of one good branch 



YOUNG CORDON OF THE LADY APPLE TRAINED AS AN EDGING. 



near the earth, where it receives more heat, where it causes no injurious shade, 

 and where it may be protected with the greatest efficiency, and the least amount 

 of trouble. 



" ' A few words are necessary as to the best method of planting and managing 

 the apple trained and planted around the quarters or borders. In a garden in 

 which particular neatness is desirable, it would be better to plant them within 

 whatever edging is used for the walks ; but in the rough kitchen or fruit garden 

 they may be used as edgings. The reason for supporting the cordon at one foot 

 from the surface is to prevent the fruit getting soiled by earthy splashings. By 

 having something planted underneath which would prevent this, we might bring 

 the cordon lower down ; but though I have thought of several things likely to 

 do this, none of them are very satisfactory. Doubtless, however, we shall yet 





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REINETTE DU CANADA TRAINED AS A CORDON. 



find something that may be cultivated with profit immediately under the cordon, 

 so as to prevent splashings, and thus be able to bring it within six inches of the 

 earth. In gardens where it would not be suitable as an edging, the best w^ay 

 would be to plant it ten inches within the box, or whatever kind of edging was 

 employed. In planting, keep the union of stock and scion just above the surface 

 of the ground, to prevent the apple grafted on the Paradise from emitting its own 

 roots, and consequently becoming useless for such a mode of training. The 



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