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small advantage where land is dear and wall space, as it always is, valu- 

 able. The cordon mode of training is likewise admirahly adapted for 

 low walls and small gardens. 



On low walls the cordons may be trained obliquely over the walls, as in 

 Fig. 34, and the end space filled up with a multiple cordon at the comer, 

 as there shown. On taller walla, again, the cordons may be trained 

 vertically, as in Figs. 31, 32, and 33. These miniature fruit-bearing 

 trees are also most yalnable for small gardens. There are thousands of 

 the latter up and down the country in which sufficient space cannot be 

 found for an ordinary sized peaoh tree, but hardly one garden any- 

 where in which a good place might not be found for one or several cordons. 



Even a single stemmed tree, like Fig. 31, will carry from one to three 

 dozen of peaches. The fruit on cordons are also, as a rule, of fuU size 

 and rich flavour, and, probably, this regal fruit never looks better than 

 when closely packed on cordons. Another great merit of this mode of 

 training is the faoUity with which it may be modified to suit or extended 

 to fiU special sites or localities. The single stem, so managed as to be in a 

 fruit-bearing state from base to summit being, for example, the unit of 

 cordon training, these units may be added to as easUy as figures to a 

 sum in arithmetic (see Figs. 32, 33, and 34, as mere examples of 

 this facility of extension). However, for many purposes and places, 

 the single obKque, vertical, or horizontal cordon — the latter seldom used 

 for peaches, and therefore not illustrated here — are the best. When the 

 cordon is extended, as in Fig. 34, it becomes to all intents and purposes 



