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or three rows of trees. For pear trees there should be 

 boards on one side and glass on the other ; they would 

 then do to protect the blossom in spring, and bring on 

 the fruit if placed on bricks as directed for ground 

 vineries. 



The double or two-branched lateral cordon (see 

 fig. 17), which is a great improvement on the French 

 single cordon, requires the same train- 

 ing, pinching-in, and management. This 

 improved lateral cordon does not require 

 a wire to support its branches ; a kind of 

 hook, something after a shepherd's crook, 

 may be used with advantage, thus : — the 

 ibranch is introduced at a and is supported by the crook ; 

 the point in the ground must be barbed. 



The quadruple lateral cordon is a tree well adapted 

 for the edging of the borders of the kitchen garden ; 

 it is merely the double cordon repeated, and we must 

 suppose the two branches of the double cordon to be 

 trained nine inches from the surface of the ground, and 

 above them, at about nine inches distance, two other 

 branches in the same direction ; this will give the quad- 

 ruple cordon (fig. 18), or low espalier edging trees, 

 occupying no more space than the single cordon, and 

 giving double its produce. The stem of the short crook 

 for single or double cordons should be 20 inches long ; 

 that of the longer one, for quadruple cordons, should be 

 28 inches long. 



The great change in .fruit culture that may be 



