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ripeness. It is one of the most interesting examples I have seen 

 of training applied to a good end, that is to say, where all done 

 to the tree, is done with a well-directed aim and with a good 

 result. A good deal of pruning is often done without either. 

 In this garden the plan of adopting three upright shoots from 



I'cach-tree with ao vertical branches {Cauddubrum fv. 

 tardive ; lo years of age, a/cel long, \o feet high ; a; 

 and size. At. Janiin's garden, Bourg-la-Riine. 



lit' in full tearing ; variety, Chevreuse 

 (roge crop, 400 /'caches 0/ the first quality 



one tree, instead of the cordon system, has been carried out. It 

 is applied to the Apricot and the Peach, one kind being worked 

 on each ascending branch, and thus three kinds are borne by each 

 tree. There was no indication of a disposition on the part of any 

 of the trios thus united not to grow agreeably together; indeed, 



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