2 88 Fruit Tree Protection, Cordons, etc. 



on a large scale in the gardens at Welbeck, the magnificent, seat of 

 the Duke of Portland. Mr. Tillery, the able gardener, has every 

 confidence in its success, and his little Calville Blanche apples are 

 in full bloom, though not planted many weeks. Thus my hope that 

 we shall soon furnish our own supply of this fine kind will probably 

 be fulfilled sooner than expected. Nothing can be more easily esta- 

 blished or more pleasant to attend to than these little trees of choice 

 apples and pears on the bottoms of low walls, walls of houses, pits, 

 &c., with a sunny exposure. And though the idea of parallel lines 

 of neatly furnished cordons stretching along the fruit borders may 

 not seem practical to all, the day is not far distant when its real 

 advantages will be clear to every cultivator of our choicer hardy 

 fruits. 



