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together^ so that plants may be placed between tbem for 

 tbe sake of sbade. As clipped hedges of arbor vitse are fre- 

 quently employed in France for giving shade in summer, it 

 need scarcely be remarked that the substitution of hedges 

 of good varieties of Pears vrould be an improvement. Of 

 course the thing could be done in England as well as here. 

 At first stakes are used to support the trees, and indeed, 

 some must be employed till they have attained their perfect 

 development; but afterwards, if properly trained, they will 

 support each other perfectly, and they may be pruned and 

 kept to look as neatly as if supported by a costly trellis. 

 Alongside one of the main walks a young specimen of a 



Fig. 358. 



Name formed by Pear Trees. 



very carefully and neatly made curtain of this kind may be 

 seen. These hedges bear as freely and well as any other 

 form of Pear tree whatever. The Beurre Clairgeau line was 

 worked on Quince and Pear stocks alternately. The trees 

 on the Quince were little better than dead ; those on the 

 Pear were fine, full of fruit, showing in a marked manner 

 that the variety requires the Pear stock. There are several 

 curious attempts at forming the proprietors" names with 

 trees, and away from walls too, in this nursery, one 

 of which is here figured. There are, so far as I could 

 learn, no large gardens devoted to fruit culture in the 

 neighbourhood, but multitudes of small proprietors, with 



