. Barry's Fruit garden. Fruit-culture. TEELLISES. 247 " It is farther objected that the cordon espalier is more expensive than one in the old method. This is true, as regards first expense ; but against this, the operations of pruning are much more rapidly executed. TVe can ob- tain a full crop of fruit from the cordon in six years, whereas it would take sixteen or twenty by the old method. The crop of ten seasons Avould certainly pay many times the extra expense of the first planting. " Finally, it is said that to give sufficient space to the stem of these trees, the Avails must be
. Barry's Fruit garden. Fruit-culture. TEELLISES. 247 " It is farther objected that the cordon espalier is more expensive than one in the old method. This is true, as regards first expense ; but against this, the operations of pruning are much more rapidly executed. TVe can ob- tain a full crop of fruit from the cordon in six years, whereas it would take sixteen or twenty by the old method. The crop of ten seasons Avould certainly pay many times the extra expense of the first planting. " Finally, it is said that to give sufficient space to the stem of these trees, the Avails must be of a certain hight. This is true; but it will the minimum hight be nine feet. We conclude, then, that for walls at least nine feet high, the simple oblique cordon is to be pre- terred; for walls of less elevation, the old palmette, or ; TRELLISES. The most simple trellis on which to train pear trees in this method is that illustrated by fig. 120. For a wall of. TKELLIS FOR OBLIQtTE CORDON. five feet elevation, three transverse pieces, solidly fixed against the wall, then a series of laths nailed to the trans-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Barry, Patrick, 1816-1890. New York, Orange Judd Co.
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