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garden there was abundant evidence tliat the horizontal 

 cordon for Apples is the best improvement effected in open- 

 air fruit culture for years. 



A line of Pears 

 trained thus may also 

 be seen, but it is a 

 failui'e, although there 

 was a fine crop hang- 

 ing on one specimen 

 of the Belle Angevine. 

 When grown in this 

 Avay the Pear usually 

 manifests a disposition 

 to shoot up " gour- 

 mands/'' or shoots very 

 like those of Willows, 

 from the bend. On 

 walls where the sap 

 has room to spread_, 

 this inconvenience is 

 of course not present. 

 The young Pear and 

 other trees here in 

 preparation for wall 

 and espalier culture 

 are beautifully trained 

 in line by means of 

 tightly strained galva- 

 nized wires. By this 

 means trees fit to place 

 against walls imme- 

 diately, and without a 

 leaf or shoot out of 

 place, may be picked 

 out at any time. A 

 good many handsome 



Palmetto and other trees are to be seen, but particu- 

 larly remarkable are those trained en fuseau,^^ or in what 

 is sometimes called the columnar form. This is simply a 



