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course depends on the convenience and fancy of the 

 owner, or conductor, of the garden. 



Let the trees take their natural form of growth as 

 far as the system described will permit, for Mr. Green- 

 shields considers it of little consequence what shape is 

 given to the tree, provided every branch is made, as it 

 were, a long spur, with bearing-buds from the base to 

 the extremity. 



Two or three years' trial of this method only, might 

 possibly deter many from a continuance of it, in con- 

 sequence of the quantity of young wood which will be 

 produced yearly at first, and from the apparent diffi- 

 culty of getting rid of the superfluity. But the in- 

 convenience will be ultimately surmounted, if the 

 foregoing instructions are attended to ; and the conse- 

 quence will be, the possession of both healthy and 

 fruitful trees. To attempt to bring very old trees 

 into this method of management, would be attended 

 with difficulty, unless they were cut down short, and 

 allowed to make new heads. {Trans. Hort. Soc, vii. 

 291.) 



The advice here given by Mr. Greenshields is excel- 

 lent, as we have proved for many years ; although 

 we had never read Mr. G.'s paper. Under a very 

 similar system, we have the best stock of rough espa- 

 liers at the present time that we have ever seen in a 

 kitchen garden. 



The first and main point with dwarf espaliers, is to 



