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The soil is of a calcareous nature, and the long strips enclosed by 

 the walls are generally ahout fourteen yards across. The syringe 

 is rarely or never used, sulphur being the remedy for spider. 

 The ground is in all cases mulched near the trees, a wide alley 

 being left ; and for preparation of the border they simply trench 

 and manure the ground a couple of feet deep, and about six feet 

 wide. The trees are pruned on the spur system, and are trained 

 to assume a variety of shapes, words and figures. The Candela- 

 brum shape is one of the handsomest and most useful. To form 



spring aspect of Fruit Garden formed in North Germany by M. Lepire fiU, on the same plan as 

 the 6est gardens at Montreuil. 



it, two branches are taken along to the right and left near the 

 bottom of the wall. From the uppermost, single shoots are 

 taken at regular intervals to the top of the wall — the lower 

 branch simply running along to the end and rising to the top of 

 the wall, or, in other words, forming a great oblong frame for the 

 interior. Then there is the Montreuil fan shape, but with the 

 divisions somewhat far from the base in most cases, and several 

 modifications of the common horizontal mode of training, which 

 we employ so much for the Pear, but never for the Peach. 

 These seem favourite varieties, and by their means the walls are 



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