TRELLISES. 



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" It is farther objected that the cordon espalier is more 

 expensive than one in the old method. This is true, as 

 regards first expense ; but against this, the operations of 

 pruning are much more rapidly executed. We can ob- 

 tain a full crop of fruit from the cordon in six years, 

 whereas it would take sixteen or twenty by the old 

 method. The crop of ten seasons would certainly pay 

 many times the extra expense of the first planting. 



" Finally, it is said that to give sufficient space to the 

 stem of these trees, the walls must be of a certain hight. 

 This is true ; but it will suffice if the minimum hight be 

 nine feet. We conclude, then, that for walls at least 

 nine feet high, the simple oblique cordon is to be pre- 

 ferred ; for walls of less elevation, the old palmette, or 

 fan." 



TRELLISES. 



The most simple trellis on which to train pear trees in 

 this method is that illustrated by fig. 120. For a wall of 



Fig. 120. TRELLIS FOR OBLIQUE CORDON. 



five feet elevation, three transverse pieces, solidly fixed 

 against the wall, then a series of laths nailed to the trans- 



