354 THE CORDON SYSTEM OF FRUIT GROWING. 



fruits will probably be found to submit to tbis mode of 

 culture as well as tbese, and all sorts sbould be tried by 

 tbose with opportunities for making experiments in fruit cul- 

 turej kinds of a fertile and compact habit being selected 

 for trial. Should we in time find varieties of our other hardy 

 fruits conform as readily to the cordon system as the Apple 

 on the Paradise^ this way of covering borders as well as walls 

 with fruit trees will prove a gain in the culture of our 

 choice hardy fruits^, the importance of which it would be 

 difficult to over-estimate. 



Efficiently protect borders and walls from the time of flower- 



Iron support let into stone. 



ing till the fruit is beyond all danger, afterwards expose all to 

 the refreshing summer rains_, and then there will be an 

 end to all but mere routine work till the protecting season 

 comes again. Every hundred feet in length of such well pro- 

 tected wall and border would be equivalent to a well- ma- 

 naged orchard house ; and how attractive the borders would be 

 considered from an ornamental point of view ! The fact of 

 the borders being thus covered with fruit trees will make it 

 almost imperative to protect the wall and border at the same 

 time; and without efficient protection at flowering time^we can 



Fig. 154. 



Fig. 155. 



