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THE PARKS AND GARDENS OF PARIS. [Chap. XXIV. 



No metliod of growing these trees in the open air is better 

 than the freely-developed standard tree, if the thinning-process 

 be well carried out. The tree should be opened up in the usual 

 way as regards its main branches, but equal attention should be 

 given to the regular and bold thinning of the fruit-bearing 

 branchlets ; and even to the thinning of the spurs, where there 

 is plenty of time to do so. In one large orchard-plantation of 

 Pears to the west of London the fruit has brought more than 

 double the amount of money during the last few years, since the 

 careful pruning and thinning of the trees, than it did when left 

 to nature. The thinning of the branchlets should not be 

 performed till they have begun to bear fruit-buds in too great 

 abundance. 



The following are the names of the kinds of hardy fruit that do 

 best as standard orchard-trees : — 



Pears. 



Breda 



Apricots. 

 For Standard Trees iu tlie Southern Counties. 

 Brussels Turkey 



Moorpark. 



