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TEACII AS A CORDOX. 



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the Pear. The following is a description of the mode of forming 

 it after M. Lepere : — 



" There are two modes of growing this form. One, which was 

 recommended by a professor of arboriculture, and frequently- 

 put in practice by many amateurs, but which I consider faulty, 

 consists in planting the trees just as they come from the 

 nursery, and training them at once in the oblique form. The 

 inconvenience arising from this method consists in beinjr oblijred 



Voting; Peach-tree trained as an OUiiinc 

 Cordon, ist yc-ar. A shows tlu tirsl 

 pruning. 



reach-tree trained as an Ohlupie Cordon- 

 ■2nd year' s pruning. The leading shoot is cut 

 at A , and the sitie-shoots at i/te cross-marks. 



to place the tree close to the wall, which crowds the roots too 

 much, preventing tliem from affording sufficient nourishment to 

 the tree. Besides this, on account of the inclination of the tree, 

 part of the roots are directed towards the surface of the earth or 

 placed in an unnatural position, thereby preventing their full 

 development. By-and-by, the trees that have been planted thus 

 are cut to half the length that they were when they came from 

 the nursery, having a number of weak, useless branches on the 

 lower part, a condition which, as every one knows, is always un- 



