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assume, are likewise exemplified ; though it sometimes 

 happens that the specimen tree has outgrown its exact 

 bounderies or form. The arbonyn trees of Holland are 

 here announced to be en gobbdet or en entonnoir. The 

 buisson of the Paris garden is our dwarf -standard trained 

 in a bushy form. The late Mr Nicol, we may remark, re- 

 commends in his writings, that a kind of small apple-trees 

 called buzelars should be planted in borders; we doubt, 

 not that some error has crept in, and that he intended to 

 say bmssons. We had now an opportunity of seeing both 

 pyramidal and quenouille trees, properly so called : they 

 differ so slightly, that it is little wonder the terms should 

 generally be considered as convertible. The difference 

 consists chiefly in this : those en pyr amide taper gradually 

 to the top, forming cones ; while those en quenouille have 

 the uppermost branches of equal length with the under- 

 most, forming cylinders. Sometimes the lower branches 

 are a little shorter than those in the middle of the tree, 

 and then the quenouille or distaff form is complete. Py- 

 ramidal trees may often be seen twenty feet high ; genuine 

 quenouilles, never half that height. The simple pyramidal 

 form is much more generally adopted than the strictly que- 

 nouille. When pyramidal trees are so pruned that the hori- 

 zontal branches form stages above one another, with intervals 

 between each set of branches, they are said to be en girandole. 

 It may be right to remind the reader, that the espalier-tree 

 of the present generation of French gardeners is equivalent 

 to our wall-tree-, and that our espalier is their contre-espalier. 

 This variation in the use of the terms has naturally arisen 

 from the circumstance of garden-walls in France being al- 

 most universally furnished with rails or trellises in front, 

 to which the branches of the trees arc tied, while in Bri- 

 tain they arc attached immediately to the wall itself. We 

 may, however, claim the merit of retaining the original 



