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so fine a climate against brick walls, that I see ho 

 reason why low 4-inch brick walls should not be built 

 by market-gardeners, and lean-to lights of increased 

 size employed for early crops ; the climate they give is 

 perfect, so efficient is the low admission of cool air in 

 between the bricks, and the exit of the heated air at 

 the top between the upper bar and the wall, an interstice 

 of about two inches. 



The varieties of apples most worthy of wall culture 

 are the Newtown Pippin, Cox's Orange, Ribston Pippin, 

 Washington, Melon, Northern Spy, King of Tompkin's 

 County, and the New Zealand apple. Prince Bismarck. 



The French apple, Calville Blanche, is also of high 

 excellence, cultivated as a wall or orchard-house tree ; 

 and in cool climates, our fine English apples, the Cox's 

 Orange and Eibston Pippin, are quite worthy of a 

 place against a wall with a southern aspect, and espe- 

 cially Cox's Orange Pippin. 



I have transplanted trees of Cox's Orange Pippin 

 grafted on the Nonesuch Paradise twelve years old 

 which had never been removed or root-pruned ; these 

 trees survived the removal and are now again in full 

 fruit bearing. 



PYRAMIDAL APPLES ON THE CRAB 

 STOCK 



In soils light and poor, the apple on the Paradise stock 

 is, unless carefully manured on the surface, apt to 



