84 CORDON TRAINING. 



well understand this. But our climate is unlike that of 

 Great Britain, and even more favorable to the peach than 

 that of France, where this fruit is never seen in the perfec- 

 tion it attains here as an orchard fruit. The single cordon 

 therefore answers every purpose and may be adopted with the 

 certainty of perfect success ; its advantages being that the 

 wall or espalier is covered with bearing wood in a very short 

 time (three or four years) and all the available space filled 

 long before it would be by either the double or treble cordon. 

 M. Dubreuil, the originator of this method of training, and 

 who has practised it exclusively since 1843, has given a de- 

 tailed account of it in the Revue Horticole, in which he 

 sums up its advantages over all other systems of training. 

 The principal of these are, its simplicity, being easily man- 

 aged by the amateur or less skilful gardener, and the saving 

 of from six to ten years in covering the entire espalier with 

 the branches. 



The only difference in appearance or in practice between 

 the treble cordon, as delineated by Mr. Brehaut in the Fron- 

 tispiece, and the single cordon of M. Dubreuil, is, that each 

 cordon proceeds from its own root, the trees being planted 

 just fourteen inches from one another. The management of 

 the laterals is the same. The somewhat difiicult process of 

 bringing up the diagonal cordon being dispensed with. . 



In our climate we would therefore recommend the single 

 cordon in preference to that of Mr. Brehaut. 



The pear particularly may be subjected to the same system 

 of training, and for the information of amateur fruit growers, 

 who may wish to try it, we copy from the Magazine of Hor- 

 ticulture (Vol. XXV., p. 451,) a translation of M. Du- 

 breuil's communication, upon the subject, remarking that 

 we have a plantation of pears already growing, in which the 

 plan will be fully tried, and which so far have succeeded ad- 

 mirably ; we have no doubt of its superiority over all the old 

 systems of fan, or horizontal training. The method will be 

 fully understood after a perusal of M. Dubreuil's description 

 with the aid of our engraving (fig. 9.) 



