10 Mr, Noisette's Method of training Fruit Trees. [Appendix. 

 not so efficient as the horizontal position. This sort of espalier, it 

 seems, he chiefly appropriates to peaches and nectarines. The 

 sides, which form the inclined planes, he says, may either be filled 

 up with trellis or lattice work, or with planks. The latter he re- 

 commends for cold situations, as being calculated to retain, or 

 reflect, the heat of the sun ; but this refinement perhaps is of little 

 use. The espalier may be placed according to the aspect that is 

 desired, either south and north, or east and west ; and the same 

 frame may, in this manner, ripen fruit sooner and later, as may be 

 required. Not to lose the space of ground between the two sides 

 of the frame, M. Noisette advises to make use of it for growing 

 strawberries, or such vegetables as will bear the shade, For this 

 oblique espalier he has, besides, invented a case or cover (see Fig. 

 4), which, where it is turned to the trees, has glass lights, so that 

 the trees may be protected, and placed in nearly the same situa- 

 tion, as if they were iu a peach-house. And what is more, they 

 may even be forced, by making a hotbed round them, when the co- 

 ver is put on. These contrivances, which certainly are ingenious, 

 it must be recollected, are of greater importance in France, and on 

 the continent, generally, than they would be in England, where 

 the use of garden walls and forcing-houses is common : but to all 

 those who cannot command these advantages, they will appear 

 worthy of attention. 



