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many uses and advantages of walls in our climate, and that we have 

 made no progress in protecting or managing wall trees correspond- 

 ing with our advances in other respects. Some persons have gone 

 so far as to say that garden walls ought to be abolished altogether. 

 One cannot believe that such people can ever have seen the excel- 

 lent results produced by well-managed garden walls — results as 

 beautiful as profitable. Why, even if we could erect glass-houses 

 by the economical aid of a magic wand, the good fruit-grower 

 would stiU find uses for a large extent of wall surface. As things 

 are at present, what all should aim at is greater success in the pro- 

 tection and management of wall trees — a thoroughly practical and 

 attainable aim. Our chief want of success at present is due to not 

 preserving the flowers and tender young leaves from the sleet, cold 

 rains, and frost, during the cold and changeable spring common to 

 northern France and the British Isles. 



