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much surprised to see here the produce of a well-cul- 

 tivated English fruit garden, in a climate not nearly 

 so favorable as the valley of the Thames. 



I have only to add that, besides my plantation of 

 Cox's Orange Pippin, I have another of upwards of 

 400 trees, which has now been in existence upwards 

 of ten years, so that I am not theorizing, but dedu- 

 cing facts from a sound basis. 



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The French gardeners often train an apple tree " en 

 cordon horizontale," as an edging to the borders in 

 their kitchen gardens, after the following mode: A 



FIG. 13. 



tree grafted on the Paradise or Doucin stock, with a 

 single shoot, is planted in a sloping position, and the 

 shoot trained along a wire, about ten or twelve inches 

 from the surface. (Fig. 13.) 



To carry out this method of training, oak posts, 

 about three inches in diameter and two feet in length, 

 should be sharpened at one end and driven into the 

 ground, so that they stand one foot above the surface ; 

 they may be from thirty to forty yards distant from 

 each other. 



From these a piece of galvanized or common iron 

 wire if the latter, it should be painted about the 

 thickness of whipcord, should be strained, and sup- 

 ported nine inches from the ground, at intervals of six 



