Chap. XXIV.] 



FRUIT CULTURE. 



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Let us now turn to the third way of improving the culture of the 

 Pear, and one that has been comparatively neglected for some years 



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|,;xst — that is, the Pear on walls. Here we are certainly behind- 

 hand, and do not appear to have made much progress for a very long 

 time. Perhaps it may be thought that the French might dispense 



