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height of three and a quarter feet and burn them. The 

 upper parts were left, and these continued to live and bear 

 fruit, being fed by the sap of the neighbouring trees, on 

 which the shoots had been grafted by approach. Horizontal 

 cordons of apple-trees present the same result when the 

 stems of any trees which have been grafted into the adjacent 

 ones are cut away. 



Approach-Grafting in Figure-Training. 

 In order to show the happy results of grafting by approach, 



Self -supporting Espalier formed by Approach-Grafting, 

 we have here figured some specimens of espaliers trained in 

 the garden of M. Pallet, at Brunoy. The trainer, M. Fores:, 

 has employed grafting either to complete their construction or 

 to preserve the equilibrium of growth. MM. Yan Huile and 

 Burvenich described these trees, in 1867, in their reports to 

 the Belgian Government. Annexed is a representation of an 

 espalier of pear-trees, formed with small palmettes, the 

 branches of which interlace and touch each other. The trees 

 are grafted at the points of contact, in the centre of the 

 design, where the branches touch back to back, and not where 



