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espaliers may be made to attain. Another Pennsyl- 

 vania estate, famous for its espaliered form of fruit 

 growing and the architectural beauty of garden walls 

 and trellises, is the country seat of Mr. Henry A. 

 Laughlin, at Chestnut Hill, where the noted English 

 landscape engineer, Mr. Stephen Ager, has been 1 

 given full charge of the work, and has accordingly 

 introduced the most practical methods of English 

 espalier work. In New Jersey one of the most success- 

 ful espalier gardens is owned and conducted by Mr. 

 Otto Jaeger ; and there are other gardens which are 

 rapidly developing into models of espalier work. 



The glass espalier wall is one of the newest feat- 

 ures. American horticulturists and landscape artists 

 travelling in Europe have of late years been greatly 

 attracted by this novel form of espalier work, which 

 has reached a high degree of perfection among 

 French nurserymen. Probably the place most fre- 

 quently visited for the study of glass espaliers is the 

 nursery of MM. Croux and Sons, at Val d'Aulnay, 

 in the Department of the Seine. On private estates, 

 probably the most interesting experiments in glass 

 espaliers are being conducted at the country seat 

 of Count Horace de Choiseul, at Viry-Chatillon, in 

 the Department of Seine-et-Oise. It is difficult to 

 imagine a more fascinating type of garden decora- 

 tion than that of a heavy glass wall, somewhat over 



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