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MY GARDEN. 



in my garden) many trees are grown upon a small extent of ground. 

 The French sometimes train a single stem close to the ground on a 



Fig. 221. — Apple Espalier. 



Fig. 222. — ^Cordon Apple. 



wire (fig. 222). I have tried the plan, but must regard it on the 

 whole as an idle vanity, unworthy of scientific horticulture. 



A few of my apples are grown in pots, such as the Newtown Pippin, 

 the Northern Spy, and the Melon apples, which are from America. 

 The Mala Cala, an Italian apple, requires pot culture ; and there is a 

 French apple called the Reinette Ananas, which, when cultivated 

 in pots, is exceedingly beautiful. Its form, size, and transparent 

 colour are so lovely that it resembles the plum rather than the apple. 

 A little tree covered with its lovely fruit in the orchard-house is a 

 most interesting sight. 



Other apples grown in pots are the Empress Eugenie, fig. 223 

 (which seems to be a most beautiful and excellent 

 kind, although I have hardly had sufficient experience 

 to recommend it for general cultivation), Court-pendu, 

 Duvesne, Perle d'Angleterre, Reinette Petite Grise, 

 and Reinette de Madeira. 



We have generally forced the Early Juneating in 

 a pot, and many times it has been shown as the 

 first apple of the season, both at the Horticultural and Botanical 

 Societies, at the end of May. *rhe visitors have been amused and 

 astonished, but the editors of the gardening newspapers have properly 

 asked, " Cui bono .? " To their inquiries I reply that it is an idle, 

 useless vanity, but many vanities which pa.ss for pleasures are more 

 stupid. There is neither a secret nor a difficulty in obtaining "the 

 first apples of the season." A tree of the White Juneating is potted 

 ' All figures of apples are drawn one-third of their diameter. 



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Fig. 223. — Empress 

 Eugenie. ^ 



