PEAR TREES TOR WALLS. 29 



these methods of training pears to walls ; and I know 

 of nothing in fruit culture more interesting than a 

 wall of upright espaliers, or of pyramids full of fruit. 

 Let us only consider that a wall 100 feet long will ac- 

 commodate four trees on the pear stock, trained in the 

 usual horizontal mode ; the same wall will give " am- 

 ple room and verge enough " to twenty trees on the 

 quince stock, trained perpendicularly ; if their young 

 shoots (all but the leaders) are pinched in to three 

 leaves all the summer, no root-pruning will be needed. 

 They are also invaluable for planting against walls 

 between old trees where there are bare spaces, as is 

 so often the case ; for they soon fill up such vacancies, 

 and bear abundance of fine fruit. A selection of va- 

 rieties for wall trees will not here be out of place. 



UPRIGHT TKAESTED TREES ON QUINCE STOCKS. 



FOB SOUTH OB SOUTH- WEST WALLS. 



Crassane* Glou Morceau* 



Summer Doyenne* Beurre Hardy 



Chaumontel Van Mons (Leon le Clerc) 



Passe Colmar Gansel's Bergamot 2 



FOR WEST OK NORTH- WEST WALLS. 



Beurr6 Diel* Beurr6 Superfin* 



Beurre d'Amanlis Marie Louise* 



Beurre de Ranee Louise Bonne of Jersey 



Beurr Sterckmans* Josephine de Malines* 



FOR EAST OR SOUTH-EAST WALLS. 



Beurre Easter* DoyennS d'Alencon 



Beurre d^remberg* Beurre de Caen 



Bergamotte d'Esperen Consellier de la Cour 



Winter Nelis* Beurre d'Anjou* 



The above varieties grafted on pear stocks are 



1 This will ripen on walls toward the end of June, quickly followed by Citron 

 des Cannes. 



1 It is not generally known that this fine variety, proverbially a shy bearer, be- 

 comes, when double grafted on the quince stock, one of the most abundant bearers. 



