THE PEAR AS A CORDON. 



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tliem a little higher from the ground. As regards the Pear 

 as a horizontal cordon^ Mr. Watson of Geneva wrote as 

 foUows to the Gardener's Chronicle : — I question if there 

 exists elsewhere a more extensive collection of Pears trained 

 on the horizontal cordon system than may now be seen in M. 

 Vaucher^s garden near Geneva. There are hundreds of them, 

 consisting of every good sort that M. Vaucher could huy. 



Fig. 164. 



The Spiral Cordon against walls. This form is not to be recommended. 



After carefully examining them^ I came to the conclusion 

 that Mr. Robinson^s conclusions are right — ^namely^, that the 

 Pear as a rule does not conform to this mode of culture like 

 the Apple, and can report no such success. Still some sorts 

 are all that could be desired. Beurre Noirchain, four 

 feet six inches long, had twenty-three fruit ; Beurre GifiPard, 

 six feet six inches long, twenty -two fruit. The fruit of the last- 

 named kind are hanging about four inches from the ground.'"' 



