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FRUIT TREES. 



cost three or four times over. If the walls are suffi- 

 ciently high — seven feet — nothing can be more simple 

 and profitable than the method we have now described ; 

 but if less than that height, it will be better to keep 

 to the palmetto form. 



Trellis for the Oblique Cordon. — The most simple 

 form is that shown by figure 104. For a wall nine or 



Fig. 103— Iron Pin. 



ten feet high, there will be required three cross pieces 

 of wood or strong iron wire, firmly attached to the 

 wall ; then a series of laths fastened to the cross pieces, 

 16 inches apart, and inclined 45 degrees, each of the 

 laths supporting one of the young trees. 



The cost will be much less if the trellis be made of 

 wire (fig. 105), as invented by M. Thiry, jun. At 

 the points A, B, 0, E, F, strong round nails, fig. 103, 

 are driven firmly into the wall; then at the points 

 G, H, I, J, K, L, pins with a hole through the 

 head (fig. 95). The end of the wire is made fast at 

 the point A, then passed through the eyes of the iron 

 pins Gr H, then supported by the two nails B C, it is 

 passed through the pins I J, under the two nails D E, 



