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FRUIT TREES FOR ESPALIERS AND DWARFS. 



three to six feet from the edge of the walk, and if in the space between 

 the espalier and the walk a line of the cordons elsewhere recommended 

 be established, the effect and result will prove very good indeed. In 

 some cases where large quantities of fruit are required, it may be 

 desirable to run them across the squares at a distance of fifteen or 



eighteen feet apart. The principle is quite simple, the proof of which 

 is that the trellises at Versailles were erected by the garden workmen. 

 M. Hardy, the head gardener at Versailles, is the son of the celebrated 

 writer on fruit trees of that name, and has had much experience in 

 fruit-growing. ' These trellises,' says he, ' are the cheapest as well 

 as the most ornamental that we have yet succeeded in making, and the 

 trees which I plant against them are of the form that I prefer to all 



