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the most unworkmanlike things to be seen, consisting as they 

 do of rough uprights of wood, which soon rot and wabble out of 

 position ; thick and costly bolt-like wire, making the whole a 

 cumbrous and expensive construction. The form of tree used, too, 



PROFIT AND ORNAMENT ON SURFACES USUALLY BARE. 



Outhouse ctniered uith Plum-trees nt Versailles. Photographed by Jules Lemercier in 

 Af-rit 1877 ; drawn and engraved exactly after the photograph. 



is such that the lower branches become impoverished, and often 

 nearly useless. 



To support his espalier fruit-trees M. Hardy, tlie lioad of the 

 School of Horticulture, has largely adopted a system which is at 



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