. Gleanings from French gardens: comprising an account of such features of French horticulture as are most worthy of adoption in British gardens. Gardening; Gardens. 140 I'he Cordon System of Training Fruit Trees. a most useful addition to the garden—that is, wherever first-rate and handsome dessert fruit is a want. But in very cold and northern partSj where many apples ripen with difficulty, it will prove a great boon. There, of course, it would be desirable to give the trees as warm and sunny a position as possible, while the form recommended for walls should be used extensively. In no case
. Gleanings from French gardens: comprising an account of such features of French horticulture as are most worthy of adoption in British gardens. Gardening; Gardens. 140 I'he Cordon System of Training Fruit Trees. a most useful addition to the garden—that is, wherever first-rate and handsome dessert fruit is a want. But in very cold and northern partSj where many apples ripen with difficulty, it will prove a great boon. There, of course, it would be desirable to give the trees as warm and sunny a position as possible, while the form recommended for walls should be used extensively. In no case should the system be tried except as a garden one—an improved method of orcharding being what we want for kitchen fruit, and that for the supply of the markets at a cheap rate. The CalviUe Blanche apple, the kind that is above all others the one I would recommend for growing on the sunny walls of little pits and the naked places above alluded to, sells in Covent-garden at half a crown for each fruit, and sometimes three Fig. 26.—CalviUe Blanche Apple trained as a Cordon. This is a fair sketch of a specimen of this fine apple I saw growing with others against the bottoms of walls. The grower told me he hoped to send them to the London market. So high is the price for the finest specimens of this variety that sometimes the little trees more than twice pay for themselves even during the first year after being planted. Few but those who know the actual state of the case, would suppose that in this fine apple-growing country we should pay so much for French grown fruit of a variety which we may grow to equally great perfection in the southern parts of England and Ireland. Yet such is the fact. I am, ho\^'- ever, confident that it vi ill not long be the case. Of course many other fine apples may be grown in tliis way, and the increase in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - colo
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