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NOTES OP A HORTICULTURAL TOUR. 



Fig. 373. 



long horizontal cordons, lines of tall trellis-work running 

 at right angles with the main walk, and accommodating an 

 infinite variety of trees — many fanciful, and many of the 

 best and most useful forms. Numbers of horizontal 

 cordons were in fair bearing, but the proprietor complained 

 that the crop was one of the worst he ever had. He 

 considered that, taking bad years with good, an average 

 of ten fruit per yard run of each line might be cal- 

 culated upon. The cordons are never protected, and, here 

 as elsewhere, furnish numerous places almost useless, and 

 which would otherwise not be occupied at all. It is 



utterly impossible to give the 

 reader an idea of the variety 

 of form to be seen in the fruit 

 trees, therefore we will confine 

 ourselves to the most remarkable. 

 The garden offers recreation 

 to its amiable owner, and he, 

 while not neglecting the very 

 best forms, also amuses himself 

 occasionally by transforming one 

 or more trees into the monogram 

 of his wife's name and his own. 

 The columnar form elsewhere 

 figured is very well developed here, 

 some of the specimens approaching 

 eighteen feet in height. They 

 are regularly staked, and high 

 lines of wire connect them by 

 the tops, so that they are held 

 firmly together. 

 Numerous Palmette trees occur here, and it is noticeable 

 that the lines which the trees are to follow are laid down 

 at first with willow or other slender flexible rods. A Plum 

 tree, trained as a Palmette Verrier, was very ornamental, 

 the lines of fruit darkening the long, neatly guided branches. 

 Nearly 1000 lbs. of galvanized wire have been used in 

 this garden. Curtains of Pear and other trees, trained on 

 slender trellises of this wire, are very well formed. The 



A Pear Tree from handsome Es- 

 palier trained to form the name 

 NALLET. 



