CORDON PEARS ON TRELLISES. 



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hard till they decay at the core. I have placed the 

 fruit in a hot-house, but have never succeeded in 

 ripening them. Williams's Bon Chretien we can only 

 use for stewing." This seems to show that cold hilly 

 situations are not favorable to the cultivation of 

 pears as standards. I have recommended some pears 

 on quince stocks, and have heard of a favorable re- 

 sult. 



CORDON PEARS ON TRELLISES UNDER GLASS. 



Some few years since a very ingenious method of 

 growing peaches and nectarines on trellises, over 

 which were placed movable glass lights, was in- 

 vented by Mr. Bellenden Ker. In warm and shel- 

 tered gardens this mode of culture answers very well 

 for peaches, but in cool climates there is not day-heat 

 enough stored up, as in houses, to act upon the fruit. 

 Cheap orchard-houses are, therefore, to be preferred 

 to these cheap trellises for the above kinds of fruits, 

 unless the garden be small and much sheltered. 



Soon after I had built my trellis for peaches, it oc- 

 curred to me that the system applied to pear culture 

 would do well, and so I built a trellis 60 feet long and 

 7 feet wide ; on this I planted upright espalier pears 

 on quince stocks. Fig. 8 is a section of this trellis. 



FIG. 8. 



and Fig. 9 is a front view of a pear tree trained to it 



