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to be trained in tliis way, wliile tlie pendulous habit of tlie 

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



St. Germain grown in tbis way, the great fruit sitting on 

 tbe ground, and quite encrusted witli eartby splasbings, 

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



