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NOTES OF A HORTICULTURAL TOUR. 



cumstances in which two lines, superimposed cordons or other 

 modifications, will prove desirable. M. Cochet has planted 



almost every good 

 variety of apple on 

 this principle, and 

 finds they all do 

 well on it. All are 

 grafted on the true 

 or French Paradise 

 stock. Some of 

 his fruit from three 

 year old plants was 

 remarkably fine, 

 and nothing could 

 look prettier than 

 the handsome apples 

 along the side of 

 the walks. Of 

 course a much more 

 regular and better 



Fig. 368. 



Han of Espalier in pre- 

 ceding figure at corner 

 of line. 



effect could be obtained by lines of one kind only, and the 

 training and pruning of them also would be more likely to be 

 performed in the best manner. In nearly all parts of the 



