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they were as equally balanced and as healthy as could he wished. 

 Where it is desired, hy nurserymen or private growers, to have a 

 large numher of varieties in a restricted space, this is the best 

 plan of all. 



"Western and southern walls are found to require more protection 

 and wider copings than those with northern and eastern aspects, 

 the abundant rains being more dreaded than the frost; the 



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Fyramid Beitrri Dlivwnt', xo years old, lo/eei high, T.O feet imde. 

 M. Jamin's garden, Bourg-la-Reine. 



western walls here have therefore a much deeper coping than the 

 eastern. North walls receive very little coping and sometimes no 

 protection at all in the way of a permanent coping, while east walls 

 have one eight inches deep, south walls ten inches, and west walls 

 twelve inches. Surely nothing can be more suggestive to those 

 who have to grow fruit in Britain, the country of rain. This 

 curious difference in the way of protecting the walls according to 

 their exposure, is based on long observation, and it partly explains 



