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THE MTNIATUEE FEUIT GAKDEN 



chalk in this country is not strong enough. Their cost, 

 as I learn from my bricklayer, is about six shillings 

 a yard in length ; thus a wall of the above height, 

 twenty yards long, shojild cost £6} In places where 

 bricks are cheap they may be built for less ; if they are 

 dear and at a distance, their carriage will add to the 

 expense. My walls are six feet apart, and stand end- 

 wise, north-east and south-west; so that one side of 

 each wall has a south-east aspect, the other a north- 

 west ; on the former may be grown the late-keeping 

 pears, on the latter the earlier sorts that ripen from 

 October till the end of November. We thus have one 

 excellent aspect, the south-east ; and one tolerably good, 

 the north-west ; so that no wall space is lost. 



Fig. 10 



The pear trees for these dwarf walls should be 

 grafted on quince stocks trained horizontally, pruned by 

 summer pinching as directed for five-branched vertical 



' This estimate was made some y?ais since ; the price of labour 

 has increased since it was given. 



