tree; but, when trained to a wall, it is much improved both in size and flavour. This variety has been objected to by many of our gardeners, on account of its tardiness, having been (under the usual defective mode of training) seldom seen to produce fruit until six or seven years from the time of grafting; but, when made to assume a form similar to the natural habit of the tree, it has produced fruit at the end of the third year*.

* HORTICULTURAL TRANSACTIONS. Vol. II. p. 80.

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