THE CORDON SYSTEM OF FRUIT GROWING. 337 



Cordons are trained against walls^ espaliers^ and in many 

 waySj but tlie most popular form of all^ and tlie best and 

 most useful^ is the little line of Apple trees acting as an 

 edging to tbe quarters in the kitcben and fruit garden. 

 By selecting good kinds and training them in this way 

 abundance of the finest fruit may be grown witkout 

 hLa\dng any of the large trees or those of any other 

 form in the garden to skade or occupy its surface. The 

 bilateral cordon is useful for the same purposes as the 

 simple one, and especially adapted to the bottoms of walls,, 

 bare spaces between the fruit trees, tke fronts of pits, or 

 any low naked wall with a warm exposure. As in many 

 cases the lower parts 

 of walls in gardens are 

 quite naked, tkis form 

 of cordon offers an 

 opportunity for cover- 

 ing them with what 

 will yield a certain and 

 valuable return. It is 

 by this metkod that the 

 finest coloured, largest, 



and best French Apj)les The Cordon on low simny-wall of plant-house. 



-I -I ■ , 1 In this way Calville Blanc, Reinette du 



SOicL m Lovent-garden Canada, the Lady Apple, Melon - Apple, 



and in the Paris fruit American-Mother, Newtown Pippin, and all 



^ -I i the finer and tenderer French, American, and 



shops at such high British apples may be grown to perfection. 



prices are grown. I 



kave seen tkem this year in Covent-garden and in Eegent- 

 street marked two and three shillings each, and M. Lepere fils, 

 of Montreuil, told me when with him last summer that they 

 have there obtained four francs each for the best fruit of tke 

 Calville to send to St. Petersburg, wkere they are sold in win- 

 ter for as muck as eight francs each ! Why should we kave 

 to buy tkese from tke Prenck at suck a kigk rate ? Con- 

 sidering tke enormous number of walled gardens tkere are 

 in tkis country, tkere can be no doubt wkatever tkat by 

 merely covering, by means of tkis plan, tke lower parts 

 of walls now entirely naked and useless, we could supply 

 kalf a dozen markets like Covent-garden witk tke very 



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