322 SATURDAY IN MY GARDEN 



The choice will naturally depend upon the depth of the gardener's 

 purse. 



For pears, peaches and plums that are to be grown on walls 

 the aspect should, if possible, be a southern one, and the training 

 of the trees should begin as soon as they are planted. A number 

 of strips of stout cloth and some strong nails will be found the most 

 effectual means of keeping the spreading branches in their p^ces. 

 But even here, as in most gardening operations, there is a right 

 and a wrong method of going to work. The piece of cloth should 

 not be bound tightly round, nor should the nail be inserted below 

 the branch. The latter should be allowed to rest lightly in a sort 

 of loop made by the cloth, and the two ends fastened to the wall 

 or fence above the branch. Care must, of course, also be taken 

 in driving the nail to avoid hitting the branch and bruising it. 



