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TIIK I'ATJKS AND GAKDENS OF I'AlilS. [Cuw. XYII. 



once cheap, neat, and almost everlasting. Instead of employing 

 ngly and perishable wooden supports he erects uprights of T-iron, 

 and connects these with slender galvanised wire. These are 

 tightened with raidisseurs, without difficulty. He erects this 

 trellising nine feet high for less than a shilling a yard run ; 

 but it could not be done so cheaply in small quantities. Then, 

 instead of adopting the common form of espalier-tree, with 



TRELLIS FOR PEAR-TREES 



TEN FEET HIGH. 



Uprights and stays of T-iron; horizontal lines, slender galvanised wire ; ver- 

 tical lines, fiinc-mood rods half an inch square and painted green : to these 

 the ascending branches are trained. 



horizontal branches, he more frequently plants trees of which the 

 branches ascend directly towards the top of the trellis. The 

 accompanying figures will give a better idea of both trellis and 

 tree than any description. There is no more important matter 

 connected with our fruit-culture than this. Those who give their 

 attention to this system will be led to adopt it, and will much 

 improve their fruit-culture. The finest stores of Pears to be seen 

 anywhere are to be found in those French gardens in which a good 



