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APPLE. 



as a hint to those employed in building hot-houses, 

 to consider, in all cases, how far a trellis may, or 

 may not, be necessary. 



Resuming the description of espaliers, it should be 

 added, that the trees, in whatever form they may be 

 trained, require the same care and style of pruning 

 as do wall trees ; and, for many kinds of fruit, an- 

 swer equally well. The celebrated Sir William 

 Temple had extensive espalier grounds, at Sheen, 

 near Richmond, in Surrey. A fine assortment of 

 both apples, and particularly of summer and autumn 

 pears, were collected on the continent by Sir William, 

 for his garden at Sheen. The trees were planted in 

 parallel ranks, running east and west, many of them 

 on English stocks, and which uniformly produced 

 abundant crops for the space of eighty years, before 

 the orchard was destroyed : the ground being pur- 

 chased in the year 1772, by the crown. Another 

 instance of successful espalier planting, was that be- 

 longing to iNIr. Secretary Johnston, at Twickenham, 

 which towards the end of the last century bore prodi- 

 gious crops of fine fruit, both pears and apples. The 

 trees were of English growth ; the apples worked on 

 the crab, and the pears on the pear stock. 



By proper pruning, disbudding, stopping the late- 

 rals, and encouraging the leaders, espalier trees may 

 be extended to a great length of branches. One is 

 described in the Gardener^s Magazine, which mea- 

 sured, in 1831, ninety-nine feet from one extremity 

 of the branches to the other, and with every sign of 

 extending itself farther. It is also a great bearer. 



