140 The Cordon System of Training Fruit Trees. 



a most useful addition to the garden that is, wherever first-rate 

 and handsome dessert fruit is a want. But in very cold and northern 

 parts, where many apples ripen with difficulty, it will prove a great 

 boon. There, of course, it would be desirable to give the trees as 

 warm and sunny a position as possible, while the form recommended 

 for walls should be used extensively. In no case should the 

 system be tried except as a garden one an improved method of 

 orcharding being what we want for kitchen fruit, and that for the 

 supply of the markets at a cheap rate. The Calville Blanche apple, 

 the kind that is above all others the one I would recommend for 

 growing on the sunny walls of little pits and the naked places above 

 alluded to, sells in Covent-garden at half a crown for each fruit, and 

 sometimes three shillings. 



FIG. 26. Calville Blanche Apple trained as a Cordon. 



This is a fair sketch of a specimen of this fine apple I saw 

 growing with others against the bottoms of walls. The grower 

 told me he hoped to send them to the London market. So high is 

 the price for the finest specimens of this variety that sometimes the 

 little trees more than twice pay for themselves even during the first 

 year after being planted. Few but those who know the actual 

 state of the case, would suppose that in this fine apple-growing 

 country we should pay so much for French grown fruit of a variety 

 which we may grow to equally great perfection in the southern 

 parts of England and Ireland. Yet such is the fact. I am, how- 

 ever, confident that it will not long be the case. Of course many 

 other fine apples may be grown in this way, and the increase in 



