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well, and in favourable seasons abundance of fruit is obtained, equal in 
size to that from wall trees. These trellises, fig. 11, are six feet wide 
at the base, and four feet high, and consist of several iron benders, six 
feet apart, and fixed to wood or stone blocks in the ground, A. The 
benders at each end are stronger, and supported with spears to bear the 
strain of the horizontal wires ; nine wires are strained lengthwise from 
end to end—one at the top or crown of the trellis, and four on each of 
the curved sides. 
The trees are planted in the centre or crown of the trellis, 18 feet 
apart; two shoots are trained horizontally to the centre wire—one to 
the right, the other to the left—and from these branches train equi¬ 
distant shoots downwards, as shown in the woodcut. The summer 
treatment consists of removing superfluous shoots and stopping those 
produced from the fruit-bearing spurs ; in the winter time they are 
pruned similar to other trained trees. 
{To he continued.) 
NOTES ON THE MONTH. 
Since I penned my last Notes we have again experienced what a 
fickle climate we have to do with. The last week in April and first in 
May were remarkable for their extreme low temperature; cold east 
and north-east winds prevailed, attended on several days with a foggy 
atmosphere, which reminded us more of the mouth of the Schelde in 
December than the last week of April in England. On the 24th, 
28th, and 29th of April, and 6th and 7th of May, the frost with us 
registered between 5° and 7° each night, and was below the freezing 
point on almost every other night. We have no time to consult the 
weather statistics of late years, but have an opinion that the fortnight 
ending the 7th of May will prove the coldest on record. On the 7th 
we had a change—the wind veered round to the west, and brought us 
a warm sultry atmosphere; on the 8th and 9th we had thunder with 
heavy rain, and up to the 17th the weather was genial, warm, and 
sunny—all, in fact, we could desire ; from the 17th to the 21st it has 
been rather colder and dry. To-day (the 21st) we have rain, which 
will be welcome to many districts, as the showers which fell with us on 
the 9th were partial, and the want of rain is severely felt. 
The change from the low temperature of the fortnight preceding the 
8th to the summer weather which followed has produced a sudden out¬ 
burst of vegetation ; the rapidity with which the pent-up buds unfolded 
themselves under the genial influences of the late fine weather was 
remarkable, and the alteration produced on the landscape, as day by 
day the eye traced the simultaneous rush into leaf which took place in 
most of our forest trees, was as interesting as the effect on the country 
was beautiful. 
With us, those standard orchard Pears and Plums which bloomed 
early were killed ; later ones have partially escaped, and in sheltered 
spots entirely so. Cherries appear a fair crop ; we have no accounts, 
however, from the Cherry orchard districts. Apples, of course, were 
