. The parks, promenades, & gardens of Paris, described and considered in relation to the wants of our own cities, and the public and private gardens. Gardens; Parks. BRUNO r. 635 Fig. 374. Peach is grown to some extent against the walls, and success- fully, some of the trees looking almost as well as those at Montreuil, though the walls are not so high. A large portion of the wall space is devoted to oblique cordons of the Easter Beurre, and these were in excellent bearing; they had been planted six years, were about twelve feet long, and bore from ten to fifteen fruit each. Planted at twe
. The parks, promenades, & gardens of Paris, described and considered in relation to the wants of our own cities, and the public and private gardens. Gardens; Parks. BRUNO r. 635 Fig. 374. Peach is grown to some extent against the walls, and success- fully, some of the trees looking almost as well as those at Montreuil, though the walls are not so high. A large portion of the wall space is devoted to oblique cordons of the Easter Beurre, and these were in excellent bearing; they had been planted six years, were about twelve feet long, and bore from ten to fifteen fruit each. Planted at twenty inches apart, and confined to one stem, which is never cut back at the point if the wood be ripe, they soon cover the wall, and, the good fruit of this variety fetching a high price, a quick return is afforded by the trees. There can be no doubt that this is the best phase of the cordon system against walls, and, as the same plan has been carried out on all the walls of the new fruit garden of the municipality of Paris in the Bois de Vincennes, there must be some good reasons in its favour. Several small walled gardens are being made in connexion with the chief one of M. Nallet, and here again the greater portion of the wall surface is devoted to Easter Beurre, the plantations being one and two years old. Six years ago, the first trees in the garden were planted, and I doubt much if any fruit garden in existence better illustrates what may be done with good management in a short time. The practice of grafting by approach the branches of the Pear trees is extensively employed here, as shown in Figs. 370, 371, and 372. The figures will better explain the mode of training and the aspect of the trees in the garden than any description. I am much indebted to M. Nallet for his kindness in sending me accurate sketches of some of his most remarkable trees. A distinct and apparently useful form of tree I met with here for the first time. It is called the crinoline form, and. Pear Tr
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