26 THE MINIATUEE J?EUIT GAEDEN 



PEAR TREES ON THE QUINCE STOCK, 

 TRAINED AS CORDONS 



The French gardeners employ the term ' cordon ' for the 

 branch of a fruit tree on which the shoots have been 

 pinched in, so as to form a succession of blossom-buds. 

 The term as used by them is expressive, and lately an 

 interesting work has been published by the Rev. T. 0. 

 Brehaut, of Guernsey, on this mode of training, under 

 the title of ' Cordon Training of Fruit- Trees.' There 

 are various forms of cordon training, but I will begin 

 with the five-branched vertical cordon commonly called 

 ' upright trained trees.' This method of training 

 originated here in April 1849, and was brought about 

 from the necessity of planting a number of new pears 

 on a boarded fence in a limited space ; the horizontal 

 method of training was quite inapplicable, and a modi- 

 fication of this system came to hand, viz., to plant 

 horizontal espaliers, and to make them perpendicular. 

 The following figure (fig. 6) is one of my five-branched 

 vertical cordon pear trees. 



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

 central shoot, and those marked b, b, the same distance 



