Underwood, Loring · Boston, Little Brown, and company · leaf 186
ding land. Aside from the air of seclusion that agarden wall gives it serves a most usefulpurpose in protecting plants from severewinds. AValls are an ideal support forvines and climbers, and may be used forthe training of fruit trees flat against itssurface. One should regret that this cus-tom of… … o THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES Trees are still trained this way in wallgardens in England and France, and someattractive examples are still to be found inour latter-day Colonial gardens, but thereis no longer any particular reason for theforcing process, except for the satisfaction ofhaving ones…
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