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wice the fruit- bearing surface that other modes | balance-sheet at the end of the year to see 
of training do, might with great profit be more 
| | freely adopted. The vertical cordon also came 
| fot M. VAN HULLE'S special commendation, 
| ү, CORTEAUD spoke in favour of the column— 
|i form obviously suitable for small gardens, 
| fom the relatively small space occupied. One 
! ofthe speakers very pertinently put the question 
| which we have often asked, but to which we 
whether the game is worth the candle. Will 
any one tell us that cordon culture is advisable 
under such circumstances? We fancy not, and 
in so far we are in accord with M. PIGEAUX, 
subject to the T. remarks of M. BUR- 
VENICH, бл ved un nop what lw 
stances amount prunin 
training "os pairin Aan ind Sn were ef ж 
does admirably in France trained as a candela- 
brum of four branches, the central stem being 
suppressed. He added that the Peach should 
always be pruned Bie cm after gathering 
e fruit. 
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As to Pears M. BALTET spoke much less 
fay ourably of the *cantre- espaliers' "than M. VAN 
ULLE, andfpreferred the * palmette-V erriere," 
or for small places the three-branched candela- 
FIG. 159.—LILIUM AURATUM AT DUNEEVAN, OATLANDS PARK, THE RESIDENCE OF JAMES M'INTOSH, ESQ. 
have ‘ever had a satisfactory reply—Of what 
Ctical use are these refinements of culti- 
on the large scale, who has to look to his | 
forms to adopt under certain circumstances. 
that the form to be 
they are not improved by pruning. The 
(SEE PAGE 778.) 
The Apple required little or no pruning 
er The 
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be TIEN, Plum trees require no 
prunin 
In duds the discussion, the President, the 
lamented M. Mas, gave a short summing up of 
the remarks of previous speakers, and arope a 
o the 
Pär Peach, &c., should be taken into con- 
