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leaving five buds to each shoot, and the young shoots 

 in June trained as required. 



Pyramidal trees cut flat on the side to be placed 

 next the wall, and planted against walls or fences, will 

 give almost a certain crop. Their shoots must be 

 pinched, and trained so as to form ■ a handsome semi- 

 pyramidal tree, which when it has reached the top of 

 the wall must be subjected to biennial root-pruning ; 

 but this will only be necessary if the tree is too vigo- 

 rous, so as to keep it in a stationary fruitful state. 

 On . the preceding page I give a figure (fig. 7) of a 

 young pyramid planted against a south-east fence. 



It will, I trust, be seen how economical of space 

 are these methods of training pears to walls; and 

 nothing in fruit culture is more interesting than a 

 wall of upright five-branched cordons or of pyramids 

 full of fruit. Let us only consider that a wall 100 feet 

 long will accommodate five trees on the pear stock, 

 trained in the usual horizontal mode ; the same wall 

 will give ' ample room and verge enough ' to twenty-five 

 trees on the quince stock, trained perpendicularly; if 

 their young shoots (all but the leaders) are pinched 

 in June, no root-pruning will be needed. They are 

 also invaluable for planting against walls between old 

 trees, where there are bare spaces, for they soon fill up 

 such vacancies, and bear abundance of fine fruit. A 

 selection of varieties for wall trees will not here be out 

 of place : — 



