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than the cordon or single-branched pear tree, because a more free and 

 natural development is allowed to the tree, and at the same time the 

 trellis is covered quickly, and a considerable variety of fruit may be ob- 

 tained from a small space. It is very extensively adopted by M. Hardy, 

 upon walls as well as on the neat and elegant trellis of which he has 

 constructed so much. Of course the Palmette Verrier, the fan, or any 

 other form, may be trained on these trellises, but decidedly the best 

 are such as combine the advantages of quick covering and early pro- 

 ductiveness claimed for the cordon, and the fuller development and 

 more pleasing appearance of the larger forms. It should be borne in 



Fig. 336. 



Trellis for pear-trees, ten feet high. Uprights and stays of T-iron, horizontal 

 lines, slender galvanized wire : vertical lines, pine-wood half an inch square 

 and painted green ; to these the ascending branches are trained. 



mind that planting erect cordons close together, as they must be 

 planted, involves a great expense, which is avoided by using trees of a 

 fuller development. It takes a good many years to form the large 

 style of tree usually adopted, and therefore I advise the general plant- 

 ing of these intermediate forms. 



"Nothing can be neater alongside garden-walks than lines such as 

 these trained on the trellis alluded to. There is no shaking about of 

 rough irons or wooden beams, no falling down or loosening of the 

 wires ; the fruit is firmly attached and safe from gales, the wood is 

 fully exposed, and the trellis when well covered forms an elegant 

 dividing-line in a garden. The best way to place them is at from 



