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value, there can be no doubt ; and it is upon tins basis that 

 we must look to see orchard-houses constructed and stocked 

 with a fine collection of all the best varieties of all kinds of 

 fruits. 



Such is our view of orchard-house culture in our climate, 

 and believing that the increasing taste for horticultural pur- 

 suits will be intensified by extending the sphere for its 

 gratification, we proceed to add, to what Mr. Brehaut has so 

 well said, some general hints applicable to our climate. 



CORDON TRAINING. 



So much has been said upon cordon training by Mr. Bre- 

 haut, that it may appear superfluous to add more ; yet as this 

 method has not been, to our knowledge, adopted by. our cul- 

 tivators, though practised several years by the French, we 

 deem a few remarks of importance, as we are sure this sys- 

 tem of training, when once its advantages are understood, will 

 be tried in the orchard-house, upon the back walls of vineries 

 and cold graperies where trees are introduced, and in the 

 open air. 



For the pear we believe it will be adopted by amateurs who 

 wish to possess symmetrically pruned trees, without great la- 

 bor, and a variety of superior fruits in a limited space ; and 

 for the peach, on the new plan of protection invented by Dr. 

 Weed of Iowa, to raise this fruit by means of a covering of 

 wooden sluitters during the winter, it will be just the mode 

 of planting and pruning to obtain the best results. 



The different kinds of cordon training are noticed by Mr. 

 Brehaut, and he has given his reasons for preferring the 

 diagonal cordon with three leaders ; at the same time he 

 remarks that " in France the single cordon with laterals of 

 fourteen inches succeeds well," though as he states " it 

 would not do well in England." With the reasons he has given, 

 and what we know of the climate of Great Britain, we can 



