24 THE iMlNIATURE FRUIT GARDEN. 



lati'ly an iiiteroHtinif -^^ork Las been published ]>\ the 

 Ul'v. T. V: Breliuut, of (Jucnisev, on this mode of 

 training, under tlie title of " Cordon Trainini? of Fruit 

 Trees." It is simply the ])inchiiifi; offtlic ends of the 

 shoots on a branch, so as to make them form bh^ssom- 

 buds, and fruit trees under this mode are planted in 

 an oblique position on walls. AVith pear trees on the 

 quince stock there is no occasion for this, and the up- 

 right or vertical cordon will be found the most con- 

 venient mode of training, for which see Fig. 0. To 

 carry out this mode of training, in April, 1849, I 

 planted one of each of some new and esteemed pears 

 on quinee stocks against a boarded fence, so that they 

 would quickly come into bearing. The usual method 

 of horizontal training I tound would take up too much 

 space, and I ec udd not find room for half the number 

 of trees I wished to plant. Iii this strait, an old idea 

 came to my assistance — that (.if cutting pyramidal 

 trees flat, and ]>lanting tlieni against walls; and then 

 a modification of tlie idea came to hand — viz., to plant 

 horizontal espaliers, and to make them perpendicular. 

 In the next page is a figure of one of my vertical cor- 

 don pear trees. (Fig. G.) 



The shoots, (/, a, should be eight inches from the 

 central shout, and those marked />, ''■, the same distance 

 from those marived a, d. This tree with five branch- 

 es will thus oeeiqiy thirty-two inches — say three feet 

 (if wall room; a tree with seven branches will require 

 four I'eet, liut as some space (Uiglit to be allowed for the 

 sjiurs on the (iutsi(K' branclu's, say live feet. If the 

 wall W' oi'a moderate height — inght feet fur instance 

 — a tree with seven branches will iiroducc quite 



