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Fig. 30 the same tree finished. There can be no question that this 

 form has considerable merit. Its weakness for our climate is the liabiUtj 

 of peach trees to canker or gam, and so lose one or more of the leading 

 shoots, which is utter ruin to such highly elaborated forms. Under 

 glass, however, and in faybnrable localities, such trees hare a dressy. 



FiQ. SO. 

 finished appearance, and are also well displayed for continuous fertility 

 if carefully managed, so as to keep up a constant supply of young shoots 

 as fruit-bea,ring wood. 



One of the chief merits of the cordon system, of which we ofEer several 

 illustrations (Figs. 31 to 34 inclusive), is that the trees may be limited 



Fio. 31. PiQ. 32. I'la. S3- 



to the smallest dimensions, that of a single stem (Fig. 31), or of two, 

 three, or more stems, as in the following figures. It is, consequently, a. 

 style of training admirably adapted for ungenial soils amd unfavourable 

 situations. In the event, for example, of a cordon peach tree dying, 

 the death creates but a smaU blank, and may be at once replaced— no 



