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to be trained in tMs way, wMle tlie pendulous liabit of the 

 fruit renders it more liable to be soiled. I once saw Uvedale's 



St. Germain grown in this way_, the great fruit sitting on 

 tlie ground, and quite encrusted with earthy splasbings. 

 I have frequently seen plantations of the Pear as a hori- 



