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THE PEAR AS A CORDON. 



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wall, by any means, a necessity for the successful culture of cordon 

 Pears in the south and west of England, As to the pruning, my 

 late gardener writes as follows : ' My experience in pinching has 

 never been what I was led to expect ; never, but in one solitary 

 instance, have I found the fruit-bud to be the result of that 

 practice, and even that one being so far from home, so to speak. 





Oblique Cordon 

 Pear, ind yea r. 



Oblique Cordon Pear, yd yea 



is tlu position 7vhL:li the tree will eventually occupy. 



would have to be cut off in order to keep the spur short. But that 

 was not all, for I have found that what was once a decided fruit- 

 bud would lengthen and grow into wood before the growing season 

 closed.' I myself certainly think that the pinching cannot be 

 carried out in our climate to the same extent as in France. [Clo.se 

 pinching is a bad English practice — not a Freiich one. In France 

 I never saw fruit-trees pinched in very close. — W. \\.\ The 



