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It is not uncommon in English gardens to train the branches of 

 tl)e pyramidal Pear in a pendulous fashion ; and it is a system 



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admired by some, though somewhat more troublesome to form 

 than the simple pyramid. The figure represents a manner of 

 applying a modification of the same principle to the ordinary 



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