THE APPLE. 



WALL CULTURE. 



The apple tree is rather impatient of restraint either 

 on the espalier rail or wall, bnt its disposition to a 

 growth too vigorous may be kept within fruitful 

 bounds by a due attention to the border and training, 

 though the tree, even in proportion to its size, can 

 rarely be brought to be so productive as when grown 

 as a standard. 



Border. — We have already considered this subject 

 fully in the section on "Soil," but as we purpose 

 giving an extended detail of Mr. C. Harrison's mode 

 of wall-training, we will also strengthen what we have 

 already said upon the subject of border-making by 

 stating his relative practice. 



Make, he says, the border three feet deep at the 

 wall, and two feet six inches at the front, also twelve 

 or fourteen broad. The surface of the under stratum 

 to have an inclination from the wall to the front of 

 the border of twelve- inches. After this is done, a 

 drain made to run close to the wall, and in a direction 



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