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lower the stop upon the toothed wheel (B, fig. 96), 

 which will hold all secure. 



The best material for tying the branches to the 

 trellis is osier. It is a security against injury if a 

 small piece of cloth or soft material be placed between 

 the wood of the trellis and the branches, at each place 

 where they are tied. When the trellis is made of wire, 

 the same result may be obtained by twisting together 

 the two ends of osier upon the wire before applying the 

 branch. 



It will be necessary during the summer to see that 

 the branches are not injured by the bandages becoming 

 too tight. When this is the case the ligatures must bo 

 immediately removed. 



PEAR TREES IN OBLIQUE CORDON. 



At present we have only described such methods of 

 training as will result in complete and full-sized wall 

 trees in the course of sixteen or eighteen years, cover- 

 ing a surface of 20 yards and upwards. The care 

 required in obtaining even the most simple of these 

 forms, and the difficulty of maintaining an equal vege- 

 tation in all parts of the tree, often render it very diffi- 

 cult for ordinary gardeners to succeed with them. 



To remove these inconveniences we have now in- 

 vented a new and original form, much less difficult to 

 manage, which may be made to cover the entire sur- 

 face of a wall in a very short time, and to obtain the 

 maximum of product at an early period, without short- 

 ening the duration of the trees. We were the first to 



