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EOSE-TEAINING ON HOOPS. 



The practice was then followed by Sir Joseph Banks, whose 

 fruit-trees trained downwards over the walls of his garden at 

 Spring Grove, and facing the high road, long excited the 

 astonishment of passers by; and it has now been generally 

 applied to other cases. What are called BaUoon Apples and 

 Pears, formed by forcing downwards all the branches of 



standard trees till the points touch the earth, are an instance 

 of this ; and they have the merit of producing large crops of 

 fruit in a very small compass : their upper parts are, however, 

 too much exposed to radiation at night, and the crop from that 

 part of the branches is apt to be cut off. One of the prettiest 

 applications of this principle is that of Mr. Charles Lawrence, 

 described in the Oofrdeners' Magazine, viii. 680, by means of 

 which standard Eose-trees are converted into masses of 

 flowers. The figure given in that work, and here reproduced 

 (Fig. XCII.), represents the variety called the Bizarre de la 



