24 THE MINIATURE ERUIT GARDEN. 



lately an interesting work has been published by the 

 Eev. T. C. Brehaut, of Guernsey, on this mode of 

 training, under the title of " Cordon Training of Fruit 

 Trees." It is simply the pinching off the ends of the 

 shoots on a branch, so as to make them form blossom- 

 buds, and fruit trees under this mode are planted in 

 an oblique position on walls. With pear trees on the 

 quince stock there is no occasion for this, and the up- 

 right or vertical cordon will be found the most con- 

 venient mode of training, for which see Fig. 6. To 

 carry out this mode of training, in April, 1849, I 

 planted one of each of some new and esteemed pears 

 on quince stocks against a boarded fence, so that they 

 would quickly come into bearing. The usual method 

 of horizontal training I found would take up too much 

 space, and I could not find room for half the number 

 of trees I wished to plant. In this strait, an old idea 

 came to my assistance — that of cutting pyramidal 

 trees flat, and planting them against walls ; and then 

 a modification of the idea came to hand — viz., to plant 

 horizontal espaliers, and to make them perpendicular. 

 In the next page is a figure of one of my vertical cor- 

 don pear trees. (Fig. 6.) 



The shoots, a, a, should be eight inches from the 

 central shoot, and those marked b, h, the same distance 

 from those marked a, a. This tree with five branch- 

 es will thus occupy thirty-two inches — say three feet 

 of wall room ; a tree with seven branches will require 

 four feet, but as some space ought to be allowed for the 

 spurs on the outside branches, say five feet. If the 

 wall be of a moderate height — eight feet for instance 

 — a tree with seven branches will produce quite 



